East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Legal Costs

(asked on 28th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust spent on legal fees on its appeal to the First Tier Tribunal with respect to the Information Commissioner's Office's decision notices on patient safety and welfare information.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 2nd April 2019

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust spent £4,655.29 on legal fees on its appeal to the First Tier Tribunal with respect to the Information Commissioner's Office's decision notices on patient safety and welfare information.

The amount East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust has spent on legal fees defending employment tribunal cases in each year since 2016 is set out in the following table.

Year

Amount

2016/17

£267,037.81

2017/18

£213,414.20

2018/19

£325,640.03 (year to date)

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