Sarah Teather – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-03-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on legal fees in immigration cases when she has been (a) the defendant and (b) the appellant, in each of the last five years for which records are available.

James Brokenshire

The Home Office cannot report separately on expenditure on legal fees in
immigration cases where the Secretary of State has been either defendant or
appellant because it does not record data in the format required for such an
analysis. The only way to answer this question would be to review all payments
of litigation expenditure manually which would incur disproportionate cost.