Gregory Campbell
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 1 May 2008, Official Report, columns 625-6W, on public inquiries, what the cost of (a) the Saville Inquiry, (b) each of the other ongoing public inquiries in Northern Ireland and (c) the Historic Enquiries Team investigations was in each of the last six months for which figures are available.
Shaun Woodward
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The costs for the last six months for which figures are available for each public inquiry under way in Northern Ireland are shown in the following tables.
| The Robert Hamill inquiry | |
| £ | |
| 2007-08 | Spend |
| October | 237,869 |
| November | 339,931 |
| December | 260,159 |
| January | 330,257 |
| February | 362,068 |
| March | 1,175,066 |
| Total | 2,705,350 |
| The Rosemary Nelson inquiry | |
| £ | |
| 2007-08 | Spend |
| October | 1,103,919 |
| November | 1,244,301 |
| December | 65,047 |
| January | 1,139,430 |
| February | 805,001 |
| March | 1,340,937 |
| Total | 5,698,636 |
| The Billy Wright inquiry | |
| £ | |
| 2007-08 | Spend |
| October | -385,450 |
| November | 750,679 |
| December | 566,304 |
| January | 491,246 |
| February | 777,436 |
| March | 1,710,872 |
| Total | 3,911,088 |
These figures remain provisional until the 2007-08 financial year accounts are completed.
| The Bloody Sunday inquiry | |
| £ | |
| 2007-08 | Actuals cash |
| October | 234,884 |
| November | 462,529 |
| December | 239,949 |
| January | 453,054 |
| February | 599,295 |
| March | 365,839 |
| Total | 2,355,549 |
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry figures are cash spend.
| The Historical Enquiries Team | ||||
| £ | ||||
| 2007-08 | PSNI HET Spend | FSNI HET Spend | OPONI HET Spend | Total |
| October | 489,000 | 28,669 | 63,000 | 580,669 |
| November | 476,000 | 102,932 | 69,000 | 647,932 |
| December | 388,000 | 13,912 | 74,000 | 475,912 |
| January | 686,000 | 22,000 | 56,000 | 764,000 |
| February | 919,000 | 32,066 | 62,000 | 1,013,066 |
| March | 228,000 | 30,588 | 66,000 | 324,588 |
| Total | 3,186,000 | 230,167 | 390,000 | 3,806,167 |
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