Asked by: Ronnie Campbell (Labour - Blyth Valley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the banking crisis of 2008 has cost the public purse to date.
Answered by Baroness Morgan of Cotes
Table M9 of the Office for National Statistics' release on EU Government Deficit and Debt of March 2014 sets out the Government's activities undertaken to support financial institutions during the financial crisis. The release is available at:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_358053.pdf