The information requested is as follows.(a) The Chief Executive of the South Eastern Education and Library Board has informed me that she is not in a position at this stage to respond to the question of the cost of recent defamation proceedings taken by the teacher involved against the Chairman of the Board of Governors at Laurelhill Community College. The Board has not yet received bills of costs from the plaintiff's solicitor nor has it received fee notes from its own Counsel.(b) The teacher involved was awarded compensation of £7,500 following the recent joint consultation which took place at the High Court.