HC Deb 07 December 1995 vol 268 cc360-1W
Mr. Peter Bottomley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the daily or hourly rate charged for and paid to police officers at the Sandown racecourse exhibition. [3785]

Mr. Maclean

I understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that the decision to deploy police at this event was an operational one and as such no charges will be made to the organisers of the exhibition. The rates of pay for the individual officers involved are not readily available. I regret that the estimated additional total police cost for this operation given in my reply to a question from the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) on 27 November,Official Report, 467, was miscalculated. I understand that the correct total figure if £2,100.