Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate the Government made (a) before and (b) after 7 July 2005 of the likely security costs for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Government first announced the funding package for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in March 2007 [HCDebs dated 15 March 2007- Hansard Column 450]. This included a preliminary estimate of £600 million for policing and wider security tasks. In addition, £238 million was set aside as contingency.

The final cost of policing and wider security for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games was £423 million and the final cost of venue security was £429 million. [WMS dated 16 July 2013- Hansard Column 71ws].