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172867

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Judicial Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what amount each Government department has spent on external legal fees relating to each case involving substantive judicial review hearings since May 2010; and what the outcome of the proceedings was in each such case.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	220247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The Treasury Solicitor conducts most, but not all, litigation on behalf of government departments. For example, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs normally conducts its own litigation. In 2014 the Treasury Solicitor acted in about 17846 judicial reviews.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Treasury Solicitor’s Department does not hold central records on the external legal fees paid in each individual case or on the outcome of each such case. Such information could not be created without examining every case file and thus incurring disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In relation to external fees, the Attorney General maintains five panels of junior counsel to undertake civil and EC work for all Government Departments. There are three London panels (an A panel for senior juniors, a B panel for middle juniors and a C panel for junior juniors) together with a Regional panel and a Public International Law panel. This is in addition to First Treasury Counsel (FTC) who exclusively does Government work, and to the Standing Counsel to certain Departments. <br></p><p> </p><p>The hourly rates for panel counsel are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>First Treasury Counsel - £230</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A panel - £120</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>B panel - £80</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>C panel - £60 if under 5 years call and £80 if over 5 years call.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In relation to outcomes, the Ministry of Justice publish figures on the number of Judicial Reviews by each Department up to 2012:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>See Table 4.3 at the link below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267408/additional-court-tables-2012.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267408/additional-court-tables-2012.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This shows the number of cases each year where Government departments were named as first defendant and where the judicial review was granted following a substantive hearing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 14/01/2015 17:46:29 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

170129

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: G4S and Serco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions (a) Serco and (b) G4S have tendered for contracts let by her Department in each year since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	218573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>Both Serco and G4S have operated contracts issued by the Home Office under different governments for more than a decade.<br><br>The number of contracts that Serco have tendered for and has been let by the Secretary of State for the Home Department since May 2010 is 5. <br><br>For the purposes of this question we have used the date that the tender process commenced as the relevant date.<br><br>Serco <br>2010/11 – 1<br>2011/12 – 1<br>2012/13 – 1<br>2013/14 – 2<br>2014/15 – 0<br>Total = 5<br><br>The number of contracts that G4S have tendered for and has been let by the Secretary of State for the Home Department since May 2010 is 9. <br><br>For the purposes of this question we have used the date that the tender process commenced as the relevant date.<br><br>G4S<br>2010/11 – 3<br>2011/12 – 1<br>2012/13 – 2<br>2013/14 – 1<br>2014/15 – 2<br>Total = 9</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/01/2015 15:21:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

172924

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Government spent on legal fees in the case Gudanaviciene & Ors, R (on the application of) v The Director of Legal Aid Casework & Or [2014] EWCA Civ 1622 (15 December 2014).
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	220248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is unable to provide the total expenditure in this case. Some issues of costs between the parties are yet to be determined and the Ministry of Justice has yet to receive final bills for legal fees and disbursements. In addition, legal advisers within the Legal Aid Agency do not claim for time spent advising on the defence of individual legal challenges brought against the Director of Legal Aid Casework unless pursuing costs from an opponent.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/01/2015 15:17:50 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter