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tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
min answer › date of answer	2019-05-15
min date tabled	2019-03-27
title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017%2F19 257394

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22/05/2019

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Birds: Conservation

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the Government was of cases CO1673/2018 and CO1683/2018 brought against Natural England including (a) administration costs and (b) legal expenditure; and how much of those costs the court allowed the Government to recover from (a) the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and (b) Mark Avery.

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Mid Sussex

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Sir Nicholas Soames

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257394

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05/06/2019

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<p>The legal costs to Natural England of defending cases CO1673/2018 and CO1683/2018, and the related appeal of those cases, were £106,000. Natural England was awarded costs for successfully defending the challenge in the High Court though these costs were capped at £10,000 for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and £5,000 from Mark Avery in accordance with cost protection rules for Aarhus Convention claims.</p>

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Suffolk Coastal

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Dr Thérèse Coffey

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05/06/2019 12:18:27

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label	Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching