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Undercover Policing Inquiry

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the annual operating cost of the Undercover Policing Inquiry in each financial year since its establishment.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
9 Sept 2026 · 55 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the annual operating cost of the Undercover Policing Inquiry in each financial year since its establishment.

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    i) The Undercover Policing Inquiry employs 36 civil servants. An additional 99 staff are contracted or sourced through a managed services contract to provide other services, such as legal support. ii) The Inquiry’s first interim report was published in Ju...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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