Public Inquiries: Barristers
(asked on 30th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will confirm the process by which counsel to public inquiries are selected.
This question was answered on 19th April 2022
Under the Inquiries Rules 2006, the appointment of Counsel to the Inquiry is a matter for an inquiry’s independent chair.
Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, has appointed Hugo Keith QC as Lead Counsel to the Inquiry.
Information as to fees paid to inquiry counsel is not held centrally. Statutory inquiries publish information on their expenditure on their own independent websites.