£26,000 Costs Incurred on Behalf of National Highways

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Dear Government Legal Department,

Thank you for the information provided with regard to EA/2021/0257; National Highways vs Information Commissioner in which you acted for national Highways and incurred costs of over £26,000. https://www.englandhighways.co.uk/26000-...

Please could you provide:

A breakdown of the hours – date and time it was spent and the subject giving rise to the cost. I understand you use specific software for such a task and that this can be extracted easily – I am seeking the detailed assessment of your bill/costs.

Confirmation that the costs include Counsel or in the alternative, any and all external spending and the compilation of same.

Thank you

Yours faithfully,

Mr P Swift

FOI, Government Legal Department

Thank you for your email.  We will get back to you in due course.
Kind regards,
GLD FOI Team

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Dear Government Legal Department,

Please advise the present position with regard to this request

Yours faithfully,

Mr P Swift

FOI, Government Legal Department

Dear Mr Swift,

Thank you for your email requesting an internal review of our response to your recent FOI request.

GLD will be in touch in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team
Operations, Government Legal Department,
102 Petty France, Westminster
London SW1H 9GL
[email address]

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Dear Mr Swift,

Further to our email of 01 September 2022, please find attached herewith GLD’s response to your request for information.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team
Operations, Government Legal Department,
102 Petty France, Westminster
London SW1H 9GL
[email address]

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Dear FOI,

you have misunderstood, I am seeking greater detail

“A breakdown of the hours – date and time it was spent and the subject giving rise to the cost. I
understand you use specific software for such a task and that this can be extracted easily – I am
seeking the detailed assessment of your bill/costs.”

it must surely be obvious that the request is for something different; I have referred to the original and the disclosed £26,000 costs.

please also explain the 4 months to respond

Yours sincerely,

Mr P Swift

Dear FOI,

The response you have provided can be found here:

https://www.englandhighways.co.uk/220614...

I understand you use specific software to log hours against a matter. I am seeking the breakdown of the hours. For example, with regard to 52 hours @ £108/hr:

on what dates were these incurred, how long was associated with each date and what did the 'attendances on client' refer to, what explanation did you record against the hours?

I am seeking the detail held for each entry totalling £26,290.10

please also confirm this is in fact the total of the sums detailed.

Yours sincerely,

Mr P Swift

Dear FOI,

Thank you for your reponse of 24/10/2022 which, upon re-reading, I believe addresses my further enquiry.

Accordingly, I have marked this WDTK request as 'information received in full'.

Yours sincerely,

Mr P Swift