Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse has been of Operation Pallial's investigation into Peter Steen, Dafydd Vevar, Alan Challenor, Keith Evans, Kelvin Horrobin, Denis Jones and Aideen Jones, formally residential care staff of Bryn Alyn Community; and what further costs have been incurred by the (a) Police, (b) Crown Prosecution Service and (c) courts in relation to that investigation.

Operation Pallial is an independent investigation by the National Crime Agency. The policing costs of the investigation were £3.7 million covering the financial years 2012/13 until 2015/16. The estimated costs for 2016/17 are £730,000. The Home Office does not hold information on the costs in respect of individual strands of this operation or the costs relating to the police, Crown Prosecution Service or the courts