§ Lady HermonTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the costs of the Saville Inquiry as of 30 June, broken down by legal fees paid to individual barristers acting for(a) the Ministry of Defence and (b) families of the victims. [123456]
§ Mr. SpellarUp to end June 2003 the cash spend by the Northern Ireland Office on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry was a total of £89.2 million. Out of this amount £7.962 million has been spent on the payment of fees to counsel representing the families or the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. These figures are set out in the table and include VAT, where that is paid, and in most cases, expenses as well as fees.
The fees of Ministry of Defence counsel are a matter for my right hon. friend the Secretary of State for Defence.
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Payments Period covered made (£) From To Senior counsel representing the families1 Lord Gifford 553,062 October 1998 January 2003 Arthur Harvey 767,362 July 1998 January 2003 Michael Lavery 435,024 November 2000 December 2002 B. J. MacDonald2 513,755 September 1998 September 2002 P. T. MacDonald3 65,800 April 1998 June 1999 Michael Mansfield 457,261 March 1999 November 2002 Elish McDermott 105,309 March 2000 June 2001 Seamus Treacy4 600,492 March 1998 December 2002 Eoin McGonigal 82,446 October 2000 June 2002 Senior counsel representing NICRA Sir Louis Blom-Cooper 306,541 December 2000 October 2002 Junior counsel representing the families5 John Coyle 272,473 September 1999 January 2003 Fiona Doherty 193,824 October 2000 October 2002 Ciaran Harvey 349,105 December 2000 December 2002 Richard Harvey 331,733 October 2000 August 2002 Brian Kennedy 546,694 July 1999 March 2003 Philip Magee6 83,175 June 1998 September 2000
Payments Period covered made (£) From To Kieran Mallon 658,899 March 1999 May 2003 Brian McCartney 640,261 July 1998 April 2003 Karen Quinlivan 179,147 March 1999 December 2001 Patricia Smyth7 328,719 October 1998 June 2002 Mary McHugh 123,972 February 2002 October 2002 Michael Topolski8 139,940 November 2000 June 2001 Junior counsel representing NICRA Paddy O'Hanlon 227,728 November 2000 October 2002 1 In addition, the following senior counsel have represented/are representing some of the families but have yet to submit fee claims: Kevin Finnegan and Reg Weir. 2 Left the case (as a junior) in September 2000 and rejoined the case (as a senior) July 2001. 3 Left the case June 1999. 4 Having started as a junior in March 1998, became a senior counsel in September 2000. 5 In addition, the following junior counsel have represented/are representing some of the families but have yet to submit fee claims: Tom McCreanor and Declan Morgan. 6 Left the case September 2000. 7 Left the case June 2002. 8 Left the case June 2001.