Airports: National Policy Statements
(asked on 13th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) legal (b) other costs to the public purse of the judicial review of the Airports National Policy Statement.
This question was answered on 16th May 2019
The external costs to date to the Department of defending the judicial review claims are £1,608,642 for legal costs and £95,152 for other costs.
Following the judgments in favour of the Secretary of State, the Department will seek to recover up to £625,000 in costs from the unsuccessful claimants.