Legal fees
Dear Treasury Solicitor’s Department
Thank you very much for your response to my initial FOI request (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/l...)
Further to this, please confirm whether these figures include all funds paid to Counsel which was instructed by T-Sol, where your client is the Home Office. Please also confirm what additional funds were received from the Home Office for payment to any other third party.
If T-Sol received any other funds from the Home Office for payment to a third party, in addition to those mentioned in the earlier FOI request (link above), please provide these figures, once again broken down by year in the same manner as that provided previously.
Kind regards
BritCits
Our Ref: RM/107/14
Dear Sir/Madam
I acknowledge receipt of your email dated 21 November 2014 which was received on 21 November 2014. I will respond to your correspondence shortly.
Yours sincerely
Paul Woods
Data Protection Co-ordinator & Freedom of Information Officer
Dear Sir
Please find attached the response to your Freedom of Information Act request.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Woods
DRO, Data Protection Co-ordinator, & Freedom of Information Officer
Treasury Solicitor's Department
One Kemble Street, London WC2B 4TS
Telephone 020 7210 3045 Fax 020 7210 4607
[email address]
Dear FOI/Paul
Further to the information you have provided me already - on the fees related to immigration and asylum cases received from the Home Office (which I calculate as £57.22m in the years 2011-14, including VAT and Counsel fees), could you please advise as to whether your figures include litigation costs for the entire immigration and asylum group, for example, the costs for commercial disputes and HR cases, as well as other functions.
This is related to the information provided to us by the Home Office here, indicating their litigation expenditure on immigration and asylum is £131.27m (with or without VAT - clarification requested): https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/2...
Home Office also previously advised us that T-Sol is their main litigation service provider, therefore we are bemused that over 60% of HO immigration and asylum litigation expenditure is not apparently being received by T-Sol - if the figures provided by both T-Sol and HO are correct!
Any light you can shed would be much appreciated.
Regards
BritCits
Dear Sir
Thank you for your e-mail. The fees received from the Home Office in relation to our litigation services include fees received for our work in relation to immigration and asylum, commercial disputes , personal injury and other miscellaneous cases.
I hope that this is of assistance to you.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Woods
DRO, Data Protection Co-ordinator, & Freedom of Information Officer
Treasury Solicitor's Department
One Kemble Street, London WC2B 4TS
Telephone 020 7210 3045 Fax 020 7210 4607
[email address]
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