UK Endorsement Board: Legal Opinion

(asked on 14th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government why the UK Endorsement Board is not using in-house counsel to instruct barristers for public interest legal advice; and why they are instead using Katherine Coates.


Answered by
Lord Callanan Portrait
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 28th October 2021

Procurement of legal advice is a matter for the UK Endorsement Board.

Any instructions to Counsel will be provided by in-house authorised persons at the UK Endorsement Board.

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