Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the £143.5 million for NHS legal costs listed on page 18 of the report by NHS Resolution, Annual report and accounts 2019/20, published on 16 July, includes staff costs and office costs incurred in connection with clinical negligence cases.
National Health Service legal costs do not include staff and office costs incurred in connection with clinical negligence cases.