HC Deb 17 April 2000 vol 348 c386W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department on how many occasions since 1986 the(a) damages and (b) costs awarded to a successful litigant in a libel action against a national newspaper have exceeded £499,000 in the case of (a) and £699,000 in the case of (b). [118909]

Jane Kennedy

This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at a disproportionate cost.