Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2015 to Question 220654, what indirect costs were incurred by her Department in connection with policing Black Friday.

The Home Office has not made any specific assessment of the indirect policy costs, including managing correspondence, in connection with policing Black Friday although these will be minimal. Outside of this any indirect costs to
the Home Office would be in the form of operational policing costs met from central Government funding. These costs are a matter for individual Police and Crime Commissioners and are therefore not collected centrally.