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	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total cost to the public purse was of legal (a) support and (b) representation to Ministers in her Department in relation to their official conduct in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
	tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
	uin	19024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>Such information is not centrally recorded or collated in the form requested. More generally, I would refer the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East to the long standing policies on legal expenditure, as set out recently by Cabinet Office Ministers on 12 March 2024, Official Report, PQ 17709 and 12 March 2024, Official Report, House of Lords, Cols. 1901-1904.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 28/03/2024 17:21:45 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1486910

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	31726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The department does not hold the total spend information relating to legal disputes, as the financial system does not have a specific structure to extract the data and legal spend is not recorded centrally.</p><p>For contract spend, following a search of the department’s special payment register, the department has not made any payments in respect to the settlement of procurement disputes, either in or out of court, during the following three financial years:</p><ul><li>1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020: £0.00.</li><li>1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021: £0.00.</li><li>1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022: £0.00.</li></ul> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 21/07/2022 18:28:24 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1257729

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what was the cost to the public purse of legal fees for the Court of Appeal case against him Case No: C1/2020/1279.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	124198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2020 answer text <p>The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 came into force on 24 April 2020 and expired on 25 September 2020. Further regulations continuing a small number of these amendments came into force from 25 September 2020 (Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020) following a public consultation over the summer. This is to ensure that services are maintained during the COVID-19 outbreak. These amendments are in place until 31 March 2021.</p><p>Where local authorities deemed it appropriate to make use of the amendments, taking account of all available information, every decision had to be agreed at senior manager level. The amendments were monitored by the department based on a triangulation of information gathered from a variety of sources, including local authorities, charities and key partners, including Ofsted.</p><p>As a departmental official, the Chief Social Worker is routinely involved in the development of policy on children’s social care, providing independent expert advice.</p><p>The legal cost for the initial Judicial Review (High Court) and the appeal (Court of Appeal) are estimated to total £80,000.<strong><br> <br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 124196 124197 124199 question first answered 07/12/2020 11:09:48 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1041297

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the highest hourly rate paid for legal advice was by (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's arms length bodies in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	208333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 22/01/2019 12:23:41 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon