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	registered interest
	date	30/03/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Inquiries: Barristers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will confirm the process by which counsel to public inquiries are selected.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	150158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>Under the Inquiries Rules 2006, the appointment of Counsel to the Inquiry is a matter for an inquiry’s independent chair.</p><p> </p><p>Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, has appointed Hugo Keith QC as Lead Counsel to the Inquiry.</p><p> </p><p>Information as to fees paid to inquiry counsel is not held centrally. Statutory inquiries publish information on their expenditure on their own independent websites.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 150159 150160 question first answered 19/04/2022 16:37:10 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1455951

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Inquiries: Barristers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has paid in fees to all counsel to public inquiries in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	150160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>Under the Inquiries Rules 2006, the appointment of Counsel to the Inquiry is a matter for an inquiry’s independent chair.</p><p> </p><p>Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, has appointed Hugo Keith QC as Lead Counsel to the Inquiry.</p><p> </p><p>Information as to fees paid to inquiry counsel is not held centrally. Statutory inquiries publish information on their expenditure on their own independent websites.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 150158 150159 question first answered 19/04/2022 16:37:10 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham