Government Paid Slaughters Nearly £3M in August, Data Reveals
The figure includes a share of £800,000 for legal advice on the government's ferry contracts.
October 25, 2019 at 08:17 AM
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Slaughter and May has won several mandates for the government in the past year.
Slaughter and May received the lion's share of nearly £3 million in legal fees from the Department for Transport (DfT) in August this year, as the Magic Circle firm continues to reel in lucrative government contracts.
Spending data for August 2019 shows that the DfT paid Slaughters and 'third parties' £2.8 million for providing 'maritime' legal consultancy services. According to a person with knowledge of the data, the payment covers contracts won between November 2018 and June of this year.
Commenting on the Slaughter and May fees, a DfT spokesperson said in a statement: "Like any sensible government or business, we routinely seek expert legal advice where necessary. This contract covered a range of issues across different workstreams, over a prolonged period. We are confident it represented the best possible cost for the taxpayer."
In February of this year, the Magic Circle firm picked up its third government contract in four months for its work relating to external advice on three contracts for additional freight capacity on ferry services between the UK and mainland Europe, designed as a fail-safe against Brexit.
A report by the National Audit Office at the time showed that Slaughters shared £800,000 in legal fees with Big Four auditor Deloitte and consulting firm Mott Macdonald.
Earlier in February, the firm was awarded another mandate for the DfT worth £800,000, as part of which the firm would provide legal services over potential legal action arising from Brexit. A person at the DfT indicated that this fee is included in the August data.
In October last year, Slaughters won a £131,000 contract for legal advice on an investment in electric vehicle charging.
Last month, new data from the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) showed that the department's legal spend has risen by more than two thirds in two years to £6.7 million. Since the referendum in 2016, the DExEU has spent more than £16 million on legal services.
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