Department of Health: Judicial Review
(asked on 13th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many legal cases have been filed against the Department of Health about public health matters in each of the last five years; and how many are currently in progress.
The Department and the Government Legal Department do not categorise cases as specifically relating to ‘public health’. According to Government Legal Department records, the approximate total number of judicial review cases brought against the Department in each of the last five years is shown in the following table. 42 cases are recorded as active as of 15 September 2017.
Year | Number of cases brought |
2012/13 | 26 |
2013/14 | 16 |
2014/15 | 22 |
2015/16 | 25 |
2016/17 | 28 |
Total | 117 |
Source: Data from the Government Legal Department.