NHS England: Legal Costs
(asked on 27th June 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS England has spent on legal fees in each of the last three years.
The available data on NHS England’s spend on legal fees in each of the last three financial years (FY) is set out below.
NHS England legal spend over the past three financial years.
| FY 2014/15 | FY 2015/16 | FY2016/17 |
Central Legal Budget spend | 4,714,212 | 3,914,384 | 3,798,795 |
Programmes Legal spend | * | * 253,183 | 864,492 |
Total | 4,714,212 | 4,167,567 | 4,663,287 |
Notes:
NHS England has two sources of legal spend: (1) the central legal budget, which covers the day to day legal business of NHS England; and, (2) programme budgets.
*During 2015/16, the finance system used by NHS England changed. Before this, the system used a generic code for all professional fees so data specifically on legal spend is not available for the full three year period. All legal spend in the central legal budget can be identified as set out above.