New figures show that the cost of running Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry was £1.54 million over the past year - £30,000 a week - taking the total cost past £9million for the first time.28 Jun 2014 - Delays to the official inquiry into the Iraq War are costing the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds a week.
New figures show that the cost of running Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry was £1.54million over the past year - £30,000 a week - taking the total cost past £9million for the first time.
More than £1million of this went on the paying the inquiry’s five strong committee, their two advisers team and its six-strong secretariat.
There was also a big increase in spending on IT and website development – from £71,000 to £196,100 – as the inquiry prepares to publish hundreds of thousands of pages of its findings online. read more>>>
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