HC Deb 21 January 1999 vol 323 c540W
Mr. Peter Bottomley

To ask the Prime Minister if he will make it his policy that Government agencies which choose not to pay costs ordered by a court at the end of a case must report the detailed circumstances and the reasons for any refusal to his office. [66872]

The Prime Minister

Government agencies are bound by Orders of the Court in the same way as any other litigant and have the same remedies available to them. Where they are aggrieved by an Order or are advised that the Order was incorrectly made, their remedy is to appeal against the Order or to apply to the Court to have the Order set aside. Otherwise, they must obey the Order.

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