§ Dr. KumarTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 13 April 1999,Official Report, column 11, on the Lancet Inquiry, if he will provide a breakdown of the costs of the Cleveland officers; under which budget those costs are accounted for; and if the costs of each of the 18 police officers from Cleveland referred to in his answer of 20 April 1999, Official Report, column 484, are included in those figures. [82564]
§ Mr. BoatengThe breakdown of the costs to the Lancet inquiry of the Cleveland officers, including travel and subsistence, is as follows:
£000 Salaries including National Insurance and allowances 412 Overtime 280 Travel and subsistence 63 All costs are initially charged to a holding account and recharged to a revenue account at the end of the financial year, in accordance with the force's normal accounting policies. The costs include the overtime and other expenses, but not the salaries, of 11 officers of the force's organised crime group who are tasked and funded to undertake major criminal investigations, which has included work on the Lancet inquiry.