Revised police costs drive up London 2012 budget
21/12/2007 |
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The 2012 Olympics budget is at risk of being burdened with another £65m for a 12-month period from April 2008 alone, if the Metropolitan Police Authority gets its way. And even that figure will be dwarfed by the MPA's demands over the following three years.
In April this year the Met conducted a comprehensive spending review for the three-year period to March 2011, with a section specifically focusing on its Olympic-related costs. But that has now been overtaken because the MPA has submitted a massively revised funding demand to the Home Office and expects a response in the new year.
According to a recently released document it has pushed up its estimates for Olympic-related policing, security, ambulance and fire services for those 36 months from £442m. That document recalculates the cost at "an additional £40.14m for revenue and £24.89m for capital" and adds: "These represent early estimates and costs will continue to change as planning develops."
The full figure for the three-year budget round is not being revealed but, according to Richard Sumray, who is the lead for the MPA on Olympic matters, it will overshadow even the £65m called for yesterday.
"Inevitably it will be a rising figure," said Sumray, "and it will be fairly steeply rising. The real costs come in during the last year - they are considerably more in the final year before the Olympics.
"We have not yet calculated what that final-year figure is as we need to look at the priorities and the risk assessment."
(Source: Guardian.co.uk)
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