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Perjury: Expenditure

Volume 472: debated on Tuesday 4 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) in how many cases the cost of investigating alleged offences of (a) perjury and (b) attempting to pervert the course of justice has exceeded £1 million in the last five years; (190055)

(2) what estimate she has made of the cost of investigation of the most expensive case of (a) perjury and (b) attempting to pervert the course of justice in each of the last five years; and how many police officers were engaged in the investigation of each such case in each year.

[holding answer 28 February 2008]: The information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.