questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what has been the cost to the public purse of advice provided by legal counsel to his Department in each year since 2010; and which (a) firms and (b) chambers have provided such advice in each of those years.
answerText: The Ministry of Defence does not hold the information over such a timeframe in a readily accessed format and therefore it could be provided only at disproportionate cost. 
heading: Ministry of Defence: Legal Opinion