Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the expenditure on competition and corporate lawyers by health services in each of the last three years.

The information requested is not held centrally.

The total spend on legal fees is shown in the Department of Health Annual Report and Accounts. For the last three years these can be found at:

2013-14 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-of-health-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014

2014-15 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-of-health-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015

2015-16 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-of-health-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016