Brook House Inquiry

Verbatim: 'As part of the Inquiry's commitment to transparency, it publishes details of its expenditure. The table below covers total expenditure from 5 November (when the Inquiry was announced) up to 31 March 2020.' 'The information in this report sets out the expenditure for the period 5 November 2019 to 31 March 2020, totalling £284,998. Costs are recorded on a resource basis and audited by the National Audit Office as part of the sponsoring Department accounts.' Table A: Costs — Chair £26,263; Inquiry staffing, including secretariat £49,294; Inquiry legal costs (solicitor, counsel and legal team) £72,643; Core participant and witness costs 'See notes below'; Running costs, including accommodation and IT £114,829; Consultancy and specialist services £21,969; TOTAL COSTS £284,998. Notes on costs (verbatim): 'These figures cover expenditure where invoices have been processed and accruals for the reporting period.' 'The final costs of the Inquiry will be published at the close of the Inquiry once all invoices have been received and settled. The categories in the table may expand during the progress of the Inquiry.' 'The Inquiry is directly funding its own legal team and all such costs are listed under the third row above, with the costs relating to the Chair included in the first row.' 'Core Participant and Witness costs: The Opening Hearing for the Inquiry took place on 21 April 2020. Expenditure relating to core participants or witnesses was not invoiced in the reporting period covered in this report and is therefore not included in the Inquiry's costs for this reporting period. The Inquiry will publish these figures in its 20/21 quarterly budget reports. Expenditure relating to core participants or witnesses to the Inquiry is made per the cost award protocol.' 'The Inquiry's costs are met by the Home Office who sponsor the Inquiry.' SOURCE ACCESS NOTE: the catalogued live URL (cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f.s3.amazonaws.com/...) returns HTTP 403 AccessDenied when fetched directly; this document was recovered via an Internet Archive Wayback Machine replay (captured 2023-10-15) and source_url points to that replay. MAPPING: panel_remuneration = Chair (£26,263). staff_costs = Inquiry staffing, including secretariat (£49,294). inquiry_legal_costs = Inquiry legal costs (solicitor, counsel and legal team) (£72,643), confirmed by the report's own note that 'The Inquiry is directly funding its own legal team and all such costs are listed under the third row above'. core_participant_legal_costs = 0: the table prints no figure for 'Core participant and witness costs' (cell reads 'See notes below'), but the notes explicitly state such expenditure 'was not invoiced in the reporting period covered in this report and is therefore not included in the Inquiry's costs for this reporting period' — i.e. nil for this specific period (not merely unstated); the Inquiry says it will publish these figures in its '20/21 quarterly budget reports' instead. accommodation_costs and technology_costs both left EMPTY: 'Running costs, including accommodation and IT' (£114,829) is a single blended line with no sub-breakdown between running costs, accommodation and IT, so it is not split — routed to other_costs in full instead. other_costs = Running costs, including accommodation and IT (£114,829) + Consultancy and specialist services (£21,969) = £136,798. safeguarding_costs left EMPTY: no such line published. All six published Table A rows (with the Core participant row taken as £0 per the notes) sum to exactly £284,998, matching the report's own printed TOTAL COSTS with no residual. BLOCKED (separately, not in this row): the Brook House Inquiry 2023/24 Quarter 2 Financial Report (cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/29/2023/11/Brook-House-Inquiry-2023-24-Q2-Financial-Statement-20231018.pdf) could not be recovered: the live URL 403s and the Wayback replay (captured 2023-12-17) returned repeated 'Internet Archive: Temporarily Offline' 503 responses and SSL/connection timeouts across multiple honest attempts; no figures for that report are included anywhere in this file.