Northern Ireland Office: Legal Costs
(asked on 6th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
This question was answered on 12th July 2022
The Department does not hold the information in a form that can readily be interrogated to provide a response. The accompanying physical invoice for each recorded financial transaction related to legal expenditure would have to be examined to determine the nature of the expense and whether it relates to legal disputes.
Therefore, the information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.