Freedom of Information
(asked on 3rd November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on legal fees over prevention of release of information requested by Freedom of Information requests since 2010.
The amount spent by this Department and its Executive Agencies on external legal fees in relation to withholding information requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, namely payments to the Treasury Solicitor’s Department and counsel, in each of the last five financial years, is as shown in the table below.
Financial year
| External legal spend (excluding VAT)
|
2009/10
| £17,495
|
2010/11
| £32,404
|
2011/12
| £311
|
2012/13
| £3,068
|
2013/14
| £69
|
2014/15
| £38,475
|