HC Deb 21 October 2003 vol 411 cc477-8W
Mr. Kidney

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the costs to his Department were of the(a) closure of Grosvenor Square and (b) policing of the private event held there on 11 September. [131411]

Mr. McNulty

The event was organised by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and was policed by officers from the Home Department.

The closure of Grosvenor Square incurred no costs to the Department for Transport. The cost of the ad hoc policing arrangements to Government was approximately £7,000.