Undocumented Migrants: Legal Aid Scheme

(asked on 21st March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help people entering the UK by irregular means access legal (a) advice and (b) aid before they are removed.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 24th March 2023

All migrants (with the exception of those who are removed within 7 days of refusal of leave to enter at the border) are given a notice period prior to removal allowing time for access to justice, and those detained pending removal are able to access legal aid surgeries.

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