Green: "Fewer than half are recorded as being active cases"
At the time Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ) entered administration in June due to financial difficulties, it was representing more than 10,000 asylum applicants, Immigration Minister Damian Green has said.
“Fewer than half are recorded as being active cases,” Mr. Green said.
In a written response to Ms. Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, Mr. Green said that they were “waiting to be advised of RMJ's final estimates of numbers of clients by the Legal Services Commission as RMJ's administrators manage the transfer of cases to other representatives.”
Ms. Creasy wanted to know the exact number of claimants for asylum were advised by RMJ before it went into administration, what assessment the Home Office has made of the effects of that administration on the time taken to complete claims and costs to the public purse of processing the claims of those persons.
“The UK Border Agency, with the Legal Services Commission, is working to ensure prompt access to alternative legal representation for all applicants as well as to ensure that the impact of what has happened to RMJ, in terms of both cost and effect on individual cases, is minimized,” Mr. Green said.
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