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Written question asked by Louise Haigh (Labour) on Wednesday, 6 February 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 11 February 2019 (named day). It was answered by Nick Hurd (Conservative) on Monday, 11 February 2019 on behalf of the Home Office.


Metropolitan Police: Expenditure

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2019 to Question 213415, what the total amount requested by the Metropolitan Police was between 2017-18 and 2018-19 for which the Government chose to award £22 million in Special Grant funding.

Original answer

Please see attached document with answer.

The answer was corrected by Nick Hurd (Conservative)

on Monday, 18 February 2019 on behalf of the Home Office.

Corrected answer

Please see attached document with answer.

The £22 million awarded in Special Grant funding to the Metropolitan Police referred to in our answer to question 213415 was solely for the Grenfell Tower investigation and response. It does not represent the full amount of Special Grant funding provided to the Metropolitan Police for 2017-18 and 2018-19.

Please see table below regarding Metropolitan Police Special Grant claims and awards for 2017/18 and 2018/19:

2017/18

2018/19

Claimed

Awarded

Claimed

Awarded

Grenfell Tower

£11 million

£10.1 million

£13.5 million

£11.4 million

Madeleine McCann investigation

£308,500

£308,500

£300,000

£300,000

Royal Wedding

N/A

N/A

£237,000

£237,000

USA President visit

N/A

N/A

£1.3 million

£1.3 million

Commonwealth Summit

£602,000

£602,000

£4.6 million

£4.6 million

Commonweath Summit – Hostile Vehicle Mitigation measures

£5.2 million

£5.2 million

N/A

N/A

London terrorist attacks

£7.7 million

£7.7 million

N/A

N/A

Total

£24.8 million

£23.9 million

£19.9million

£17.8 million

Information regarding all Special Grant claims and awards from 2014/15 to 2017-18 has been published on the .gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-funding-special-grant-applications


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
217646
Session
2017-19
Attachment
PQ answer
Related items
Criminal Investigation: Costs
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Criminal investigation Costs Expenditure Metropolitan Police
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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