United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 129855
Legal Aid Scheme: Refugees
Introduced
26 February 2018
Last action
1 March 2018 · Answer
Status
Answered
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Subjects
Asylum
Source updated
1 March 2018
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what post-legislative scrutiny his Department has carried out on the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 as it relates to legal aid for refugee sponsors seeking family reunion.
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26 February 2018
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what post-legislative scrutiny his Department has carried out on the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 as it relates to legal aid for refugee sponsors seeking family reunion.
Source: Commons
1 March 2018
Answer
Legal aid is not generally available for UK residents to re-unite with their family members from overseas. The Government policy on legal aid continues to be that limited legal aid resources are made available for the highest priority cases and to the mos...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-02-26/129855
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/850287
- uk · wq-850287 · source updated 1 March 2018