Home Department written question – answered at on 17 July 2013.
Rehman Chishti
Conservative, Gillingham and Rainham
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department has spent on legal fees in respect of the removal of Abu Qatada in each year since the case commenced.
James Brokenshire
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The following table sets out the Home Office's expenditure on legal fees in respect of the Abu Qatada deportation case, year on year since the current immigration proceedings began in 2005.
| Expenditure (£) | |
| 2005 | 11,202 |
| 2006 | 164,645 |
| 2007 | 32,646 |
| 2008 | 241,418 |
| 2009 | 97,713 |
| 2010 | 64,472 |
| 2011 | 7232 |
| 2012 | 333,372 |
| 2013 (to May) | 115,948 |
| Total | 1,068,648 |
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