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	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Asylum: Legal Opinion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government is taking steps to increase the availability of legal advice to people making an asylum claim.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	180522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that those seeking asylum in this country have access to publicly funded legal advice and representation.</p><p>Access to legal aid is a key part of a fair immigration system, which is why we are spending around £8m expanding access to legal aid, helping victims of modern slavery, individuals prioritised for removal and individuals appealing an age assessment decision.</p><p>The Legal Aid Agency keeps market capacity and the provision of services under constant review and takes immediate action when gaps appear, working with providers to ensure provision nationally.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 180523 question first answered 20/04/2023 07:51:22 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1610390

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Asylum: Legal Opinion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of legal advice available to people making an asylum claim.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	180523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that those seeking asylum in this country have access to publicly funded legal advice and representation.</p><p>Access to legal aid is a key part of a fair immigration system, which is why we are spending around £8m expanding access to legal aid, helping victims of modern slavery, individuals prioritised for removal and individuals appealing an age assessment decision.</p><p>The Legal Aid Agency keeps market capacity and the provision of services under constant review and takes immediate action when gaps appear, working with providers to ensure provision nationally.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 180522 question first answered 20/04/2023 07:51:22 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1281250

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Styal Prison: Pregnancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how (a) many and (b) what ethnicity of women were known to be pregnant while (i) on remand or (ii) serving a sentence in HMP Styal on (A) 31 March and (B) 30 June 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	144767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2021 answer text <p>Pregnancy data is collected and monitored locally by individual prisons to ensure the appropriate support can be provided to women in our care, whether women are on remand or sentenced.</p><p>I can confirm that an ad hoc data collection exercise was undertaken on the 28 January 2021 which indicates that the number of women known to be pregnant whilst on remand or serving a sentence in HMP Styal on 31 March 2020 and 30 June 2020 was fewer than three on each date. As the overall number is fewer than three and releasing the actual number would risk identification of individuals, it is not possible to give any more information about ethnicity, for the same reason.</p><p>On 31 July we published a summary report of our review of operational policy on pregnancy and women separated from children under 2. This includes an undertaking to extend the range of data we publish in relation to pregnant women in prison, and can be found at the following link: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905559/summary-report-of-review-of-policy-on-mbu.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905559/summary-report-of-review-of-policy-on-mbu.pdf</a>.</p><p>We have already taken steps to increase our internal national data collection processes to support the policy review, and to enable us to plan for future publication.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 05/02/2021 13:32:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon