§ Mr. Michael McNair-Wilsonasked the Attorney-General what information he has as to the amount paid out in legal aid in cases involving alleged medical negligence by health authorities in each of the last three years.
§ The Attorney-GeneralInformation is not available in the form requested. The statistics kept of legal aid granted 131W in medical negligence cases are not broken down by type of defendant. The gross cost to the legal aid fund of medical negligence cases, including those involving alleged medical negligence by health authorities, was as follows:
£ 1982–83 879,118 1983–84 1,048,506 1984–85 1,450,479 The above figures take no account of sums recovered by way of contributions or the statutory charge or by way of costs recovered from unassisted losing parties.