Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: Security

(asked on 19th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether private contractors provided personnel to augment the number of Metropolitan Police Service officers policing the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting; and if so, how much was paid for those services.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
This question was answered on 2nd May 2018

In line with previous international summits, costs will be published in due course.

No private contractors were employed to carry out functions that are the role and responsibility of the police.

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