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	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many court cases the Government has defended since 2010; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such case.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	7101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Each Department is responsible for defending actions brought against them and makes their own arrangements for doing so. There is no central record of all court cases brought against the Government and therefore it is not possible to identify either the total number of cases or the cost of them.</p><p>However, most central government bodies instruct the Government Legal Department to conduct their litigation. Since the 2010-11 financial year the Government Legal Department has been instructed by government bodies in almost 200,000 cases costing about £570 million (including VAT).</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 18/09/2017 11:35:43 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

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	registered interest
	date	09/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each Government department and its agencies spent on external legal advice and representation in each year since 2010; and for what purpose.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	204900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Expenditure incurred by other Government departments is not held by the Cabinet Office.</p><p>Spend incurred by my department on the items requested can only be obtained at disproportionate cost. However, my department has not spent money on World Cup Tickets.</p><p>This Government reduced the percentage of the Cabinet Office annual pay bill spent on in year rewards from 0.55%, prior to May 2010, to 0.25% now.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 204899 204901 204902 204903 question first answered 14/07/2014 16:13:55 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham