Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of the Commission on a Bill of Rights.
The cost of the Commission on a Bill of Rights from its establishment in March 2011, to its final report in December 2012 was approximately £700,000. This figure is also quoted on pg 39 of its final report which is publicly available at http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/cbr