§ 23. Mr. CameronTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how much was spent in legal a id on funding asylum(a) hearings, (b) appeals and (c) judicial reviews in the last two years; and if she will make a statement. [101892]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonThe Legal Service Commission's computer systems do not record expenditure according to the stage a case has reached; nor is it possible to identify asylum expenditure separately from the more general category of immigration matters. However, for the last two completed financial years, expenditure on immigration and asylum was £81 million in 2000–01 and £130 million in 2001–02, We estimate that at least 90 per cent. of that expenditure related to asylum matters.