§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the total cost to date to Her Majesty's Government, including policing costs, of the deployment of cruise missiles at(a) RAF Greenham Common and (b) RAF Molesworth.
§ Mr. Ian StewartMy right hon. Friend the Prime Minister set out the total construction costs of the two cruise missiles bases in her reply to the hon. Member on 4 December 1987, at column725. Of those total costs, £15.9 million at RAF Greenham Common and £21.0 million at RAF Molesworth were met by Her Majesty's Government. The cost of security and supervision borne by the Ministry of Defence at both bases since 1979 is about £20 million. It is estimated that additional policing costs borne by police authorities amounted to approximately £5.8 million.