Northern Ireland Protocol: Legal Costs
(asked on 9th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the litigation in (1) James Hugh Allister and Clifford Peeples v the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and others, and (2) the earlier decisions of the Court of Appeal and High Court in Northern Ireland in the same case, how much they spent in total in defending their position on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.
This question was answered on 21st March 2023
The Government has spent £196,567 on fees associated with the legal challenges of Clifford Peeples and Jim Allister and others.