{"id":7230,"date":"2023-02-16T13:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T13:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2023-04-05T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:17:11","slug":"475-million-spent-on-asylum-legal-aid-since-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/2023\/02\/16\/475-million-spent-on-asylum-legal-aid-since-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3135 million of your money spent on asylum legal aid since small boats crisis began"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government just rejected a <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/627168?reveal_response=yes#response-threshold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petition<\/a> which called on them to make sure people who enter the UK illegally are not eligible for&nbsp;legal&nbsp;aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their response to the petition, which secured 12,242 signatures, an official response said: &#8220;The Government has no current plans to change how&nbsp;legal aid&nbsp;eligibility is determined. <em><strong>The nationality of an individual, their immigration status, or the way in which someone entered the UK, does not have any bearing on their ability to access&nbsp;legal&nbsp;aid.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that tens of thousands of illegal migrants will be able to access legal aid, including those coming in order to abuse our asylum system paying people smugglers to travel here without permission from safe countries such as France. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The effect can only be to hugely encourage illegal asylum abuse &#8211; and with taxpayer money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another parliamentary answer, the government said (of those illegal entrants who are trying to fight off attempts to send them to Rwanda): &#8216;Funding for\u00a0legal\u00a0aid\u00a0is on a demand led basis&#8221; (Question by Daniel Kawczynski (Con) (Shrewsbury and Atcham):\u00a019599 &#8211; June 2022). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So effectively open-ended \/ unlimited\u00a0legal\u00a0advice (funded by the hard-press taxpayer), including for those breaking into the UK<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">.<\/span><\/strong> This in the midst of mounting asylum abuse, age fraud and public safety issues created by the inability and unwillingness of authorities to properly check those arriving on unauthorised dinghies and lorries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that more than 130,000 people have come to the UK illegally by air, road or sea since the start of 2018 (not including many thousands who overstay their visas). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further context, an average of just under <strong>\u00a335 million per year<\/strong> of taxpayer money is spent on legal aid for asylum seekers in the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This in addition to an average of \u00a34 million per year on non-asylum claims since 2013. In total <strong>\u00a3585 million<\/strong> of taxpayer money has been spent on immigration legal aid claims since 2009, including <strong>\u00a3134 million<\/strong> on asylum legal aid since the small boats crisis began in 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See graph below, which is based upon these Ministry of Justice <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/app.powerbi.com\/view?r=eyJrIjoiMGQwNzY5MjQtYTUyZS00NWUzLWE4NzItYWFhN2U3ZDJlMzE1IiwidCI6ImM2ODc0NzI4LTcxZTYtNDFmZS1hOWUxLTJlOGMzNjc3NmFkOCIsImMiOjh9&amp;chromeless=1&amp;filter=true\/ecf&amp;pageName=ReportSection50b5c23f94cc321ddc2b\" target=\"_blank\">statistics<\/a> (see table 5. 3). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"991\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-04-05-at-11.13.11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-04-05-at-11.13.11.png 991w, https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-04-05-at-11.13.11-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-04-05-at-11.13.11-768x470.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government just rejected a petition which called on them to make sure people who enter the UK illegally are not eligible for&nbsp;legal&nbsp;aid. In their response to the petition, which secured 12,242 signatures, an official response said: &#8220;The Government has no current plans to change how&nbsp;legal aid&nbsp;eligibility is determined. 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