Legal Opinion: Expenditure

Grant Shapps
To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners how much was spent by the Commissioners on legal fees in each of the last five years.

Sir Stuart Bell
Legal fees incurred by the Commissioners in the last five years (less income from third parties for legal work, legal fees charged to the Commissioners by external firms and the cost of outsourced legal work) are as follows.

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|    |Total net cost (£)|
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|2002|705,407           |
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|2003|763,005           |
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|2004|817,502           |
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|2005|847,681           |
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|2006|850,200           |
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