Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 13 December (HL12091), how much of their total spend on clinical negligence legal defence costs in (1) 2016–17, and (2) 2017–18, was used for (a) NHS Resolution services, and (b) external solicitors including disbursements.
NHS Resolution has advised that the figures provided for legal defence costs in my Written Answer of 13 December were for external solicitors including disbursements.
NHS Resolution has provided the following table which shows its own administration costs for dealing with clinical negligence claims in 2016/17 and 2017/18.
| Admin Costs £000s |
2017/18 | 11,634 |
2016/17 | 9,982 |