Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration
(asked on 3rd September 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June to Question 57910 on Legal Aid Scheme, how much the Legal Aid Agency paid in fees to Duncan Lewis LLP in (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23, (c) 2023-24, and (d) 2024-25 related to immigration and asylum cases.
The requested information can be found in the table below. Information filterable by financial year, legal aid provider, and type of legal aid can be viewed on the Provider explorer dashboard of the Legal aid provider completions and starts statistics data visualisation tool.
Financial Year | Immigration and Asylum Closed Case Expenditure – Duncan Lewis |
2021-2022 | £8,201,255 |
2022-2023 | £7,980,147 |
2023-2024 | £8,108,969 |
2024-2025 | £6,052,515 |
Duncan Lewis is the largest Legal Aid provider in the UK, currently operating across 29 offices.
Legal aid is only available in respect of immigration cases which are within the scope of legal aid as set out under Schedule 1, Part 1 of the Legal Aid and Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and is subject to both financial eligibility and merits tests.