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<p>NHS Resolution has provided the following information:</p><p>NHS Resolution has
provided tables which cover:</p><p>- total expenditure for NHS Resolution Clinical
Negligence Schemes and NHS Resolution non-clinical negligence schemes from 2009 to
2018;</p><p>- the total legal costs per financial year; and</p><p>- the draft budget
for legal fees/damages 2019 for NHS Resolution Clinical Negligence Schemes and NHS
Resolution non-clinical negligence schemes.</p><p>The data is attached due to the
size of the data.</p><p>National Health Service spend on legal fees for matters other
than clinical/non-clinical negligence settlements since 2009 has been interpreted
as spend relating to NHS providers and commissioners.</p><p>This includes NHS trusts,
NHS foundation trusts and NHS England and clinical commissioning groups. NHS spend
on legal fees for non-negligence matters is shown in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total
legal fees (£000s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>110,747</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>171,806</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>162,273</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>172,135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>160,140</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Prior
to 2013-14, expenditure on legal fees was not separately classified by primary care
trusts and strategic health authorities who both carried out NHS commissioning and
NHS trusts. Therefore, comparable information pre 2013-14 is unavailable.</p><p>There
is no specific category of expenditure that isolates spend relating to legal settlements
in the NHS.</p><p>We have interpreted the request for data for the amounts set aside
in 2019 as the value of said provisions as at the end of the financial year, 31 March
2019. This data is still subject to audit and will not be available until after publication
of the Annual Report and Accounts in July 2019.</p><p>The budget totals for legal
fees relating to NHS spend in 2019 is not available.</p><p> </p>
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