AL-SWEADY INQUIRY
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library copies of all invoices submitted by public interest lawyers for work undertaken in relation to Al-Sweady Inquiry. [196973]
Mr Francois, Minister of State for the Armed Forces: The Al-Sweady Inquiry has cost the public purse £28.4 million to 31 March 2014. The potential cost of the Inquiry to its completion is £31.1 million.
The information requested is commercial in confidence and cannot be provided without a significant level of redaction of sensitive information.
However I am able to provide a summary of costs incurred by public interest lawyers for work undertaken in relation to the Al-Sweady Inquiry up to 31 March 2014.
| Summary of payments made to public interest lawyers in relation to the Al-Sweady Inquiry. | |
| Date of payment | Amount of payment (£) |
| March 2010 | 6,921.60 |
| August 2010 | 68,060.36 |
| October 2010 | 45,752.15 |
| February 2011 | 41,581.11 |
| May 2011 | 94,154.64 |
| June 2011 | 6,210.00 |
| July 2011 | 33,828.33 |
| September 2011 | 10,113.68 |
| November 2011 | 6,445.34 |
| December 2011 | 2,421.51 |
| January 2012 | 68,343.35 |
| February 2012 | 37,838.53 |
| April 2012 | 21,775.17 |
| May 2012 | 47,491.94 |
| June 2012 | 16,328.20 |
| July 2012 | 5,200.00 |
| August 2012 | 220.60 |
| September 2012 | 10,115.00 |
| November 2012 | 100,587.10 |
| December 2012 | 46,352.33 |
| January 2013 | 99,208.41 |
| February 2013 | 51,117.56 |
| March 2013 | 74,356.24 |
| May 2013 | 197,070.38 |
| June 2013 | 107,544.50 |
| July 2013 | 164,335.64 |
| August 2013 | 85,516.25 |
| September 2013 | 33,091.25 |
| October 2013 | 176,401.67 |
| November 2013 | 187,376.83 |
| January 2014 | 174,806.09 |
| February 2014 | 36,133.25 |
| March 2014 | 59,093.74 |
| April 2014 | 301,909.00 |
| Grand Total | 2,417,701.75 |