DLA Piper has received the lion’s share of Government legal spend on plans to build a third runway at Heathrow, raking in £1.09m in fees from the Department of Transport in the 14 months until October 2016.

In total the Government department, led by Chris Grayling, has paid £3.8m to external law firms and consultants since the Airport Commission published a report in the summer of 2015 naming Heathrow Airport as the best option for a new London runway.

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