Charlotte Leslie
Conservative, Bristol North West
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which legal firms his Department instructed in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and what the cost to the public purse was of those instructions.
Daniel Poulter
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
The following table shows expenditure that the Department made in 2008-09 and 2009-10 to external organisations that have provided legal services to the Department.
| £ | ||
| Supplier name | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
| Dac Beachcroft LLP | 2,276 | 274 |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP | 12,304 | — |
| Macfarlane Special Payments Trust | — | 32,735 |
| Mills and Reeve LLP | — | 22,211 |
| Skipton Fund Ltd | — | 2,462 |
| The Eileen Trust | — | 7,405 |
| The Macfarlane Trust | — | 37,280 |
| Total | 14,580 | 102,367 |
The expenditure in 2009-10 to the organisations MacFarlane Special Payments Trust, Skipton Fund Ltd, the Eileen Trust and the MacFarlane Trust were for services provided by Wilson Solicitors.
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