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Department of Health and Social Care: Legal Costs

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 122531, tabled on 15 January 2018

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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