Inquiries: Northern Ireland

Mr. Paterson
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much the Ministry of Defence had spent under each budget heading on the (a) Rosemary Nelson, (b) Robert Hamill, (c) Billy Wright and (d) Saville Inquiry on the latest date for which figures are available.

Mr. Bob Ainsworth
As at the end of February this year the Ministry of Defence had incurred a total of approximately £35.6 million in expenditure on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, of which £32.5 million represented legal costs and the remainder other costs. I gave the latest available figures on costs incurred by the Department in connection with the Rosemary Nelson and Billy Wright Inquiries in a written answer on 9 November 2009, Official Report, column 40W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble).

The Department has incurred no expenditure in connection with the Robert Hamill Inquiry.