Deportation: Legal Aid
Commons · Question 74860 · Tabled 3 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 12 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of legal aid support in deportation cases in the last 12 months.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 12 Sep 2025
Expenditure relating to deportation and removal appeals is published as part of the Legal Aid Agency’s Official Statistics as part of its ‘detailed civil data’ collection. Due to the way information is recorded it is not possible to distinguish between co...