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28 mentions of the inquiry in Parliament since June 1999: debates, written questions and statements, oral questions and early day motions, from Hansard.
54th anniversary of IRA murders of two police officers in Londonderry
That this House notes that, on 27 January 1972, Sergeant Peter Gilgunn and Constable David Montgomery, two police officers on patrol in Londonderry, were murdered by the Provisional IRA using a Thompson sub machine gun; further notes that this happened in the vicinity of, and just three days before, the events that were subsequently described as Bloody Sunday; and regrets that the Saville Report into the events of that day contained references to the activities of some soldiers on the day as ...
Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the final costs were for each of the participating legal teams and individuals involved in the Saville Inquiry; and what costs in that inquiry were incurred after 2005.
The team costs for each of the participating legal teams are detailed in the enclosed attachment.
A full breakdown of the legal costs from 2005 onwards is not readily available. The table below provides a less detailed breakdown.
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Costs £
2004/
2005
2005/
2006
2006/
2007
2007/
2008
2008/
2009
2009/
2010
2010/
2011
Inquiry Counsel fees
1,579,400
840,342
855,342
750,531
685,926
844,016
121,435
Eversheds
339,593
70,914
-
-
-
5,204
-
Lawyers for Interested
Parties - fees
5,474,483
2,104,590
4,795,377
951,995
419,714
-
-
Lawyers for
IPs - accommodation
34,652
21,674
69,770
-
30,000
-
-
Lawyers for
IPs - travel
272,310
67,851
281,238
11,454
16,678
-
-
Lawyers for
IPs - subsistence
22,287
2,868
11,792
21
24,979
-
-
Total
7,722,725
3,108,239
6,013,519
1,714,001
1,177,297
849,220
121,435
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To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2014, Official Report, columns 51-2W, on the Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry, what the amount was of the invoice for the hosting of the website for the Saville Inquiry; and what the totals were for any previous such invoices for that service since 2010.
The invoice referred to in my previous answer was for £80 excl. VAT. The Northern Ireland Office paid a total of £7,900 excl. VAT for hosting and management of the Saville Inquiry website and domain name. These costs ran between 31 August 2010 and 31 March 2013, at which point the contract was terminated.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether invoices for legal or other work carried out in connection with the Savile Inquiry have been submitted for payment since January 2013.
No invoices have been submitted for payment in respect of legal work in connection with the Saville Inquiry. An invoice was submitted in March 2013 for hosting of the Inquiry website.
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at end add `, but the cost and the time taken must not be anything remotely approaching that reached by the Saville Inquiry.'.
PUBLIC ENQUIRY INTO CLAUDY BOMBING
That this House recognises the fact that the Saville Inquiry into events in Londonderry in January 1972 has been ongoing for several years; and demands that recent revelations by the Police regarding the bombing of the nearby village of Claudy in the same year and the alleged involvement in that atrocity by a now deceased Roman Catholic priest be the subject of a detailed public inquiry.