Nigel Dodds – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Northern Ireland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nigel Dodds on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the cost of public enquiries relating to Northern Ireland in each year since 1997.

Mrs Theresa Villiers

The costs for public inquires relating to Northern Ireland published by my Department since 1997 are as follows:

The Bloody Sunday inquiry £191.5 million

The Rosemary Nelson inquiry £46.5 million

The Billy Wright inquiry £30.5 million

In addition, the Robert Hamill Inquiry has been completed but the Report has not been published due to ongoing legal proceedings. The costs as of February 2011 stood at £33 million.

No public inquiries have been established by the current government. In 2011 we set up a review into the murder of Patrick Finucane, which reported in 2012 at a cost of £1.1 million.