Welsh Conservatives have criticised the amount of money spent by the Welsh Government on external legal advice, following the disclosure of costs by the Finance Minister.

According to information obtained by the North Wales Assembly Member Antoinette Sandbach, 3.1 million pounds was spent between the beginning of February 2011 and the end of October 2012.

External legal advice was procured by the government on 365 occasions during the course of those 21 months.