Attorney General: Legal Profession
(asked on 12th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to his Department was of the use of external lawyers by his Department (a) in general and (b) related to the work of the Treasury Solicitors in (i) 2016, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2014.
The cost relating to the use of external lawyers (including lawyers in the Government Legal Department, formerly the Treasury Solicitor’s Department) by the Attorney General’s Office for the last three financial years is in the table below:
£ | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
Cost of GLD lawyers | 425,859 | 330,442 | 322,023 |
Cost of GLD disbursements (Counsel) | 210,537 | 340,640 | 220,182 |
Cost of GLD disbursements (Other external lawyers) | 40,153 | 8,677 | - |
Non-GLD legal fees (Counsel) | 18,816 | 14,252 | 18,949 |
Total external legal fees | 695,366 | 694,011 | 561,153 |
All figures are exclusive of VAT.