Nick Clegg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Clegg on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on legal advice related to the UK voting to leave the EU from (a) the Government Legal Service and (b) external legal firms; and how much he plans to spend on such advice over the next 12 months.

Sir Alan Duncan

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not spent anything on external legal advice related to the UK voting to leave the EU.