Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much Sir John Chilcot has been paid in daily allowances and expenses since the establishment of the inquiry into the Iraq war.

Sir John Chilcot is paid a fee of £790 for each day worked. His three Committee colleagues are paid £565 for each day they work. According to the Inquiry’s website, since the Inquiry began in 2009, remuneration for the Committee and its advisers totalled £1,565,700 up to the end of the last financial year.