Department for Education: Legal Costs

(asked on 28th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, if he will estimate the costs attributed to the Department for Education by the Government Legal Department since 2010.


Answered by
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Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 4th February 2016

The Treasury Solicitor’s Department was renamed the Government Legal Department (GLD) on 1 April 2015. It is primarily funded through the fees it charges for its legal services. It provides Litigation, Employment, Commercial and Advisory legal services to the Department for Education (DfE). The fees charged to DfE for this work, including the cost of disbursements, are as follows:

Financial year

Fees (excluding VAT) £

2010-11

4,208,845

2011-12

4,499,546

2012-13

4,805,840

2013-14

4,409,976

2014-15

4,098,629

Providing information on the costs attributed to cases relating to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 would incur disproportionate cost as it would involve a manual exercise to identify those historical cases that relate to FOI.

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