Question
To provide a cost for policing the brief presidential visit by Joe Biden in April 2023 and by which fund / funds this policing operation was taken from?
Answer
The estimated recoverable costs for policing the visit by President Joe Biden to NI in April 2023 were £2.56m. This figure includes all additional costs being overtime, mutual aid and non-pay costs but it excludes duty time costs. The totality of the £2.56m was reimbursed by Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) via the Northern Ireland Office (NIO).
These figures are only for the cost of the visit of President Joe Biden and do not capture the wider policing of the events to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
Keith Buchanan - DUP