Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration
Commons · Question 122802 · Tabled 23 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much legal aid funding has been provided to appellants in the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber in each year since 2020, broken down by (a) ethnicity, and (b) nationality of the appellant.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 26 Mar 2026
Legal aid expenditure in respect of cases before the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) broken down by ethnicity is set out in the annexed table. Data is self-reported to the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) by applicants or their legal aid solicitor, it ...