Departmental Legal Costs

Mr. Wallace
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much has been paid by his Department in legal costs to (a) the solicitor Phil Shiner and (b) public interest lawyers since 2001.

Mr. Bob Ainsworth
Specific data on the expenditure by the MOD on all legal costs paid to claimants’ solicitors are not held centrally and therefore could be provided only at disproportionate cost.