HC Deb 24 July 2002 vol 389 c1225W
Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many cases(a) her Department and (b) its agencies have defended in (i) industrial tribunals and (ii) the courts in each year since 1997; how many were concluded in their favour; and what the total cost to his Department of litigation was in each year. [411101]

Mrs. Liddell

The Scotland Office was established in its present form on 1 July 1999.

My Department has not been involved in any industrial tribunal cases since it was established.