§ 15. Mr. Andrew MacKayasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the cost of policing the Greenham common base.
§ Mr. HurdThe Thames Valley police authority estimates the total cost of policing Greenham common in the current financial year as some £3.7 million. About 65 per cent. of all policing costs in Thames Valley are met by central Government through police grant and rate support grant. As my right hon. and learned Friend said in reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Mr. McNair-Wilson) on 22 December 1983 — [Vol. 51, c.350.] — he is making available an additional £1.5 million in recognition of the exceptional additional costs borne by the police authority which it could not have foreseen.