PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Education: Freedom of Information (13 January 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on lawyers in cases relating to the release of departmental documents under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)

Legal costs relating to Freedom of Information are not held centrally by the Department and the cost of determining these over the past five years would exceed the disproportionate limit. The costs of internal lawyers’ time are not held in such a way that they can be separately identified.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
18 January 2016