Education written question – answered at on 1 November 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many times his Department has sought advice from external counsel in (a) 2007, (b) 2009, (c) 2010 and (d) the first six months of 2011.
The Department for Education is aware of 12 matters on which it has directly sought advice from external counsel during the first six months of 2011. It does not include matters on which the Treasury Solicitor, acting on behalf of the Department in litigation, has sought advice from external counsel.
The Department does not keep a central record of each time external counsel is instructed, so to provide accurate information on the number of times that counsel has been instructed in previous years could be done only at disproportionate cost.
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