Judicial Review
(asked on 21st October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many judicial review cases have been successfully brought against his Department in each year since 2010.
The following table shows the number of judicial review cases brought against the Department and Public Health England (PHE) since 2010. Until 2013, information was not held centrally on whether the decisions challenged in these applications were upheld.
Year | Department of Health | Public Health England (an executive agency of the Department) |
|
| Number of applications for judicial review made during year | Number of applications for judicial review made during year | Number of applications upheld during year |
2010 | 35 | - | - |
2011 | 26 | - | - |
2012 | 27 | - | - |
2013 | 29 | 1* | 2** |
2014 | 11 to date | 0 to date | 0 to date |
*This application was made prior to 31 March 2013, before the formation of PHE.
** These were successful challenges against decisions of the Department of Health, the two applications were joined and dealt with together.