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Departments: Legal Costs

Volume 461: debated on Monday 18 June 2007

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Grant Shapps

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was spent by his Department on legal fees in each of the last five years. (139403)

Barry Gardiner

Legal fees of counsel and solicitors in private practice incurred by this Department and its agencies over the past five financial years are as follows:

£000

2002-03

3,107

2003-04

2,810

2004-05

4,615

2005-06

3,975

2006-07

1,754