Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what has been the cost to the public purse of advice provided by legal counsel to his Department in each year since 2010; and which (a) firms and (b) chambers have provided such advice in each of those years.

The Ministry of Defence does not hold the information over such a timeframe in a readily accessed format and therefore it could be provided only at disproportionate cost.