Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
The question
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
Expenditure data for asylum seekers across all legal aid schemes is not held centrally.
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