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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Legal Aid Agency (9 March 2022)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish the funding agreements for Legal Aid Agency's immigration legal aid contracts that are expected to commence from September 2022.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

Answer

The existing 2018 Standard Civil Legal Aid Contract is being extended until 31 August 2023 with the exception of the Immigration category which will be extended for a shorter period. The length of the Immigration extension will be communicated as soon as agreed.

Payment for legal aid work carried out under the 2018 Standard Civil Legal Aid Contract is subject to the rates and provisions set out in the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013.

The department will be consulting in Spring 2022 on new immigration fees as a result of the Nationality and Borders Bill, and any future Immigration contract will be tendered on the basis of these proposals, once finalised and subject to consultation. Details about future contracts will be published on the Legal Aid Agency’s tender page https://www.gov.uk/topic/legal-aid-for-providers/tenders.

The Legal Aid Agency will be contacting all current civil contract providers shortly to confirm its intentions.


Answered by:
James Cartlidge (Conservative)
14 March 2022

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