Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum

(asked on 29th August 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of providing legal aid to asylum seekers charged with criminal offences in the UK in the last year.


Answered by
Sarah Sackman Portrait
Sarah Sackman
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 8th September 2025

Expenditure data for asylum seekers across all legal aid schemes is not held centrally.

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