Duncan Lewis Solicitors: Legal Aid Scheme
(asked on 6th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public funds in the form legal aid were paid to Duncan Lewis Solicitors for immigration cases in each of the last 5 years.
The requested information can be found in the table below:
Financial Year | Total Costs, £ |
2017-18 | 9,224,878 |
2018-19 | 9,150,426 |
2019-20 | 8,091,003 |
2020-21 | 7,737,439 |
2021-22 | 8,055,383 |
Duncan Lewis is the largest Legal Aid provider in the UK currently operating across 23 offices.
The Legal Aid Agency publishes data regarding civil legal aid expenditure broken down by category of law and legal aid provider as part of its official statistics.
Legal aid is only available in respect of immigration cases which are within the scope of legal aid as set out under Schedule 1, Part 1 of the Legal Aid and Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and subject to the application of a strict financial eligibility and merits test.