Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2019 to Question 213415, what the total amount requested by the Metropolitan Police was between 2017-18 and 2018-19 for which the Government chose to award £22 million in Special Grant funding.
The £22 million awarded in Special Grant funding to the Metropolitan Police referred to in our answer to question 213415 was solely for the Grenfell Tower investigation and response. It does not represent the full amount of Special Grant funding provided to the Metropolitan Police for 2017-18 and 2018-19.
Please see table below regarding Metropolitan Police Special Grant claims and awards for 2017/18 and 2018/19:
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| Claimed | Awarded | Claimed | Awarded |
Grenfell Tower | £11 million | £10.1 million | £13.5 million | £11.4 million |
Madeleine McCann investigation | £308,500 | £308,500 | £300,000 | £300,000 |
Royal Wedding | N/A | N/A | £237,000 | £237,000 |
USA President visit | N/A | N/A | £1.3 million | £1.3 million |
Commonwealth Summit | £602,000 | £602,000 | £4.6 million | £4.6 million |
Commonweath Summit – Hostile Vehicle Mitigation measures | £5.2 million | £5.2 million | N/A | N/A |
London terrorist attacks | £7.7 million | £7.7 million | N/A | N/A |
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Total | £24.8 million | £23.9 million | £19.9million | £17.8 million |
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Information regarding all Special Grant claims and awards from 2014/15 to 2017-18 has been published on the .gov.uk website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-funding-special-grant-applications