{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-procedure-and-remuneration-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-procedure-and-remuneration-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1248",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Procedure and Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-procedure-and-remuneration-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 to the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Part 1 (Civil Standard Fees)—\n(a) for paragraph (2) substitute—\n“2 The fees in Table 1 for Housing do not apply to the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service. The fees for that service are contained in Table 6(a) in this Part.”;\n(b) in paragraph 3, in Table 1, in the fourth row (Debt)—\n(i) in the second column (Standard Fee), for £180 substitute £256, and\n(ii) in the third column (Escape Fee Threshold), for £540 substitute £768;\n(c) in paragraph 3, in Table 1, in the sixth row (Housing)—\n(i) in the second column (Standard Fee), for £157 substitute £223, and\n(ii) in the third column (Escape Fee Threshold), for £471 substitute £669;\n(d) for Table 4(a) substitute—\nTable 4(a): Immigration and Asylum Standard Fees\nImmigration and Asylum\nType of matter\nStage 1 (legal help)\nStage 2a (controlled legal representation)\nStage 2b (controlled legal representation)\nAsylum\n£559\n£274\n£685\nImmigration – non asylum\n£317\n£274\n£549\n(e) for Table 4(aa) substitute—\nTable 4(aa): Immigration and Asylum Standard Fees – online system appeals\nImmigration and Asylum: online procedure appeals\nType of matter\nStage 2d (appeals without a hearing)\nStage 2e (appeals with a hearing)\nAsylum\n£808\n£1,219\nImmigration – non asylum\n£759\n£1,033\n(f) in Table 4(b) (Additional Payment – UKVI Interview), for “£266” substitute “£360”;\n(g) in Table 4(ba) (Additional Payment – National Referral Mechanism), for “£150” substitute “£203”;\n(h) for Table 4(c) substitute—\nTable 4(c): Additional Payments for Advocacy (including Online Procedure Advocacy) Services\nActivity\nAdvocacy Services Standard Fee\nOral Case Management Review Hearing\n£183\nTelephone Case Management Review Hearing\n£99\nSubstantive Hearing in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal\nAsylum - £332\nSubstantive Hearing in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal\nImmigration - £261\nAdditional Day Substantive Hearing\nAsylum - £177\nImmigration - £177\n(i) omit Table 4(ca);\n(j) for Table 4(d) substitute—\nTable 4(d): Immigration Removal Centres Standard Fees (for Exclusive Schedule Holders only)\nOn Site Surgery – advising 5 or more clients\n£497\nOn Site Surgery – advising 4 clients or fewer\n£249\nStandby Payment\n£47\n(k) omit Table 6;\n(l) for Table 6(a) substitute—\nTable 6(a): Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS)\nActivity\nStandard Fee\nEscape Fee Threshold\nHLPAS Stage One: early legal advice\n£223\n£669\nHLPAS Stage Two: in-court duty scheme\n£108 (London rate)\nN/A\n£102 (Non-London rate)\n(3) In Part 2 (Hourly Rates - Controlled Work)—\n(a) for the heading in Table 7(a) substitute “Mental Health, Claims Against Public Authorities, Public Law, Education and Community Care”;\n(b) after Table 7(a) insert—\nTable 7(aa): Immigration and Asylum and Housing and Debt\nActivity\nLondon Rate\nNon-London Rate\nPreparation, Attendance and Advocacy\n£69.30 per hour\n£65.35 per hour\nTravel and Waiting Time\n£34.65 per hour\n£32.70 per hour\nRoutine Letters Out and Telephone Calls\n£5.35 per item\n£5.20 per item\n(c) for the heading in Table 7(b), substitute “Family and Miscellaneous (employment)”;\n(d) for the heading of Table 7(c), substitute “Family help (lower) and related legal help in relation to section 31 of the Children Act 1989”;\n(e) omit Table 7(d);\n(f) for Table 8(a) substitute—\nTable 8(a): Immigration and Asylum - Escape Fee Cases\nControlled Legal Representation\nActivity\nLondon Rate\nNon-London Rate\nPreparation and Attendance\n£69.30 per hour\n£65.35 per hour\nTravel and Waiting Time\n£34.65 per hour\n£32.70 per hour\nRoutine Letters Out and Telephone Calls\n£5.35 per item\n£5.20 per item\nAdvocacy\n£72.35 per hour\n£72.35 per hour\n(g) for Table 8(c) substitute—\nTable 8(c): Controlled Legal Representation — Immigration and Asylum hourly rates cases\nActivity\nLondon Rate\nNon-London Rate\nPreparation and Attendance\n£69.30 per hour\n£65.35 per hour\nTravel and Waiting Time\n£34.65 per hour\n£32.70 per hour\nRoutine Letters Out and Telephone Calls\n£5.35 per item\n£5.20 per item\nAdvocacy\n£69.30 per hour\n£68.90 per hour",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/422, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2013/2877, S.I. 2015/325, S.I. 2020/1001, S.I. 2022/1379, S.I. 2023/147 and S.I. 2024/889."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1248/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:03.991429+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}