DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death

Previous government spent almost 1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases

More than 50,000 of taxpayers' money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home.

The costs were part of a bill of nearly 1m spent under the last government to prevent the release of various documents under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.