How much did the October 9th "Sack Parliament" demonstration in Parliament Square cost ?
The Home Office, as usual, claims to have no clue, in their Written Answer to a Parliamentary Question by David Amess MP for Southend West (Conservative).
Hansard 20 Oct 2006 : Column 1459W:
Parliament Square DemonstrationMr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of people who attended the demonstration in Parliament square on 9 October 2006; how many police officers were present; how many (a) women and (b) men were arrested; whether permission was granted beforehand for the demonstration to take place in Parliament square; what the cost was of policing the demonstration; and if he will make a statement. [95124]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not yet available. I will write to the hon. Gentleman when it has been collated by the Metropolitan police.
Given the costs of the Police operations to arrest Brian Haw in May (about £28,000), and the counter-productive Forest Gate raid and shooting incident (1 to 2 million pounds, depending on whether you count normal Police wages, which would have been paid anyway),
Any guesses at over £100.000 ?
We await the Answers about the number of arrests (37 ?) and exactly under which sections of the law they were made.
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