To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent by his Department from the public purse on legal fees from external legal firms in each year since 2012.
Answered on
18 January 2018
The following table shows the amount spent on external legal fees in each year since 2012:
Financial year | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
External legal fees | £9,863,377 | £9,067,828 | £5,281,455 | £12,231,057 | £3,863,217 |
Information on the legal fees related to tendering and awarding contracts cannot be separately identified from the general data on legal fees held by the Department.
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Department of Health and Social Care
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