Stonnall Road Bail Hostel

HC Deb 08 December 1997 vol 302 cc436-7W

Mr. Shepherd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out the legal costs incurred by the West Midlands Probation Committee in its unsuccessful challenge, in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, to the decision of the Planning Inspector not to grant permission to extend the Stonnall Road Bail Hostel. [18877]

Ms Quin

The legal costs incurred by the West Midlands Probation Committee in the High Court were £21,000. Provisional estimates are that the costs incurred in the Court of Appeal will be in the region of £13,000, to which any legal costs incurred by the Crown in the appeal would be added.