Daniel Kawczynski – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Kawczynski on 2016-01-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost was to the public purse of police investigations into suspicious deaths over the last three years.

Mike Penning

The Home Office does not directly monitor the costs of such investigations as these are met locally from individual police force budgets.

However, If the police face unexpected or exceptional events, there is an established process by which Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) can apply for Special Grant funding to help with these costs. Special Grant funding is usually only available when the additional costs are more than one per cent of the PCC’s budget, or where the additional costs might threaten the financial stability of the force.