§ Captain Kerbyasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what has been the total cost to public funds of his personal staff and official advisers during the Brussels negotiations from their inception until their collapse on 29th January, 1963, including living expenses in Brussels, travelling, secretarial costs and other disbursements.
§ Mr. SandysThe estimated cost for the Colonial Office is about £12,000. This includes the salaries of staff engaged on full-time duties in connection with the negotiations, and the travelling and subsistence expenses of all Colonial Office staff who took part in them. It would not be practicable to estimate the proportion of salaries attributable to the negotiations in respect of officers concerned with them part-time.