Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their current estimate of the cost to the Exchequer to date of those parts of Operation Yewtree where (1) the defendant has been acquitted, or (2) a decision has been taken not to proceed with any further action in relation to the defendant.

The Home Office does not collect information of this kind. Like all investigations led by the police, Operation Yewtree is an operational matter – in this case for the Metropolitan Police Service.