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Legal Costs

Volume 472: debated on Monday 3 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) how much his Department has spent on (a) legal and (b) other costs in connection with the case of al-Rawi and others vs the Secretary of State; and if he will make a statement; (189753)

(2) what the cost to the public purse has been of (a) the defence and (b) the prosecution in the case of al-Rawi and others vs the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; and if he will make a statement.

The legal costs in connection with the case of “Al Rawi and others v. the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs” were borne jointly by the Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Including fees for counsel and the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, these costs came to just under £395,000 including value added tax. The FCO does not have any information about the claimants’ legal costs, which were met by the Legal Services Commission.