§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the cost of each police operation referred to in appendix 10 of the report of the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis for the year 1982.
§ Mr. Hurd[pursuanttohisreply, 11July 1983,c. 216]: Appendix 10 to the Commissioner's report lists public order events in 1982 which required the employment of more than 1,000 officers. The events included demonstrations, marches, state visits, ceremonial, festive and sporting occasions. Following is the text of the appendix, together with the Commissioner's estimate of the cost, to the nearest £1,000, of each operation: 281W
Subject Date Number of police Extra duty cost (£,000)* Total cost (£,000)† March National Union of Students march 5 1,749 0 137 National Front march 6 1,140 0 103 Anti-apartheid march 14 1,733 0 135 State visit of the Sultan of Oman 16 1,900 0 91 April Grand Orange Lodge march 17 1,085 0 90 May "Troops Out" movement march 8 1,010 0 94 London marathon 9 1,878 19 200 Wandsworth industrial dispute 21 to 27 1,506 8 152 Falkland Islands ad hoc committee march 23 2,140 0 167 Papal visit 28 6,258 ‡ ‡ Papal visit 29 6,289 ‡ ‡ Trooping the Colour—first rehearsal 29 1,006 0 72 Papal visit 30 1,807 ‡ ‡ June Trooping the Colour—second rehearsal 5 1,511 0 91 CND march 6 5,710 73 621 State visit of the President of the USA—central London reserves 5 to 9 3,686 28 382 State visit of the President of the USA—event on "C" District 7 4,113 0 370 State visit of the President of the USA—event on "A" District 8 4,568 12 450 State visit of the President of the USA—event on "A" District 9 2,275 0 164 Trooping the Colour 12 1,779 0 128 July Falkland Islands Thanksgiving Service 26 1,063 8 110 August Notting Hill carnival 29 to 30 11,269 430 1,513 National Front meeting—general reserves 29 1,241 16 135 September National Front march 12 1,148 6 125 TUC Day of Action 22 4,327 24 471 October City of London Salute to the Task Force 12 1,921 0 199 November Remembrance Day service 14 1,760 0 144 National Union of Students march 19 1,374 0 143 December New Year's Eve festivities 31 1,474 17 120 Notes: * Extra duty cost is the cost of deploying offers who could otherwise be expected not to have been on duly. † Total cost is the cost of employing officers who would have been on (other) duty in any event, together, where applicable, with the extra duty cost; the calculation of cost other than at ‡ includes a notional element which reflects the differential costs of employing the various ranks in the Metropolitan Police. ‡ The costs of policing the papal visit were not apportioned over the days of the visit. They were also calculated on a slightly different basis from the figures for the other operations, because of the need to recover some of the cost from organisations concerned with the visit, and to include civilian support costs. To the nearest £1,000, and without allowing for sums recovered, the costs of the visit were: extra duty cost, 277; civilian support cost, 270; total cost, 2,122.