Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the Security Industry Authority (SIA) paid the Home Office for their services in scrutinising and holding the SIA to account in each of the last three financial years; and how many Home Office officials were engaged in that work.

The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has made the following payments to the Home Office for its services in scrutinising and holding the SIA to ac-count in each of the last three financial years:

• 2016/17 - £177,540.50
• 2017/18 - £304,454.72
• 2018/19 - In respect of Q1 and 2 only: £151,385.62

Eleven officials at various grades in the Home Office are involved in this work on a day-to-day basis, for example from sponsorship, policy and
finance. Their work in connection with the SIA forms part of their duties as they also work with other Home Office sponsored ALBs and on the wider departmental objectives