Legal Costs

(asked on 12th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Government spent on legal fees in the case The Public Law Project, R (On the Application of) v The Secretary of State for Justice the Office of the Children's Commissioner [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin).


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Shailesh Vara
This question was answered on 17th December 2014

The Hon. Member for Hammersmith is referred to the Attorney General's response to a Parliamentary Question from Sarah Tether (Brent Central), which confirms that disbursements of £61,229.59 (inc. VAT) have been paid by the Treasury Solicitor's Department on behalf of the Ministry of Justice in The Public Law Project, R (On the Application of) v The Secretary of State for Justice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin). This figure includes both proceedings in the High Court and for the appeal to be heard in the Court of Appeal.

The Ministry of Justice is unable to provide the total expenditure in this case, as it is not possible to separate out the legal spend on the litigation from the legal spend on developing the policy and other workstreams.

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