| Heading: |
Legal Aid Scheme: Undocumented Migrants |
| Question ID: |
1793620 |
| UIN: |
45277 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-08 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5158 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rupert Lowe
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Rupert Lowe
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing legal aid for people who entered the UK illegally. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5204 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Answer text: |
Determinations of eligibility for legal aid are made in accordance with the provisions of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and regulations made under that Act, passed under the previous government.Under the current regime, the... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |