That’s the news this morning, and the cost breakdown is equally astonishing.
The Daily Mail reports that the Inquiry has already racked up £1,261,316 on various things.
We add a break down of known costs below:
- Between July 2014 and the end of March, the Inquiry spent £1,261,316,
- This is around £4,706 for each of the 268 days since it was announced,
- A further breakdown reveals that £725,525 went on staff,
- With £177,480 of the staffing costs going to Ben Emmerson QC, who is counsel to the inquiry,
- £145,723 was spent on office accommodation,
- £203,838 was dispensed for IT services,
- £164,730 was spent on legal costs and;
- £16,534 was used for travel and victims’ events, with the remainder used for ‘running costs’ like recruitment and training.
Justice Goddard’s salary and accommodation have not yet been published.
Given that the Inquiry is now seeking to hire 20 or more barristers to get the job done, we can expect these costs to rise. The figures really are astonishing given that the Inquiry has no state of the art website at this time, no running process yet for getting the investigation underway and no actual clue about what kind and quantity of materials they need. And they haven’t even started taking evidence.
What do you think? Are these costs in line with other inquiries of a similar size and history or is someone having a laugh at the nation’s expense?
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Its the usual pattern. Abuse creates jobs and money for others.
..£££££ before children.
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It think it cost the Australian RC 16 million before opening its doors.
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While all this money is being spent who is protecting the children? Every day, every second that goes by is another lost opportunity towards meaningful systemic reform. All that money spent, and what money will be left to implement needed reform??
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Are these costs in line with other inquiries of a similar size and history or is someone having a laugh at the nation’s expense?
Well you said it Natasha,not me !!
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such true words for a sunday morning of course they in Governments are having a laugh at the nations expence ahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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It’s the same old story, the rich splashing taxpayers cash around, Robin Hood in reverse, and I for one have no faith in the enquiry eventually proving to be a very expensive whitewash.
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Paedophile Ring whistleblower Melanie Shaw sentenced without …
http://www.sott.net/…/288366-Paedophile-Ring-whistleblower-Melanie-Shaw- sentenced-without-evidence – Cached – Similar
31 Oct 2014 … Paedophile Ring whistleblower Melanie Shaw sentenced without evidence …
Children’s Home survivor, Melanie Shaw, is the victim of a carefully … paedophile
ring involved in crimes against children and child abuse – some …
TO-DAYS NEWS YET AGAIN
http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/news-flash-melanie-shaw-taken-devon-and-cornwall-police
Another whistle blower is in touch with me daily is Brian Freeman formally Brian Pead the whistle blower of Lambeth chid abuse and Brian has been YET AGAIN in prison for so many months on trumphed up charges and the bloody judge in his case is so corrupt and what is happening to Melanie is happening to so many child abuse victims and whistleblowers and the Governments want to spend more millions on their famous talks and talks sitting in their secure house of commons or Lords with their security and bloody drinks from the bar all supplemented by the tax payers and I have been in there and their resturant all down to the tax payers again they are all crimanals Oh sorry Lords and Ministers and are a law unto them selfs so where is the security for the 1.000s of victims
and whistle blowers yes dead or in prisons or living on the streets in poverty, I am now in my 70s I tell all in this so called British Empire there will never ever be any justice for the child abuse victims or whistle blowers and as for people such as I we have gagging orders with a threat of 7 years in prison if we speak out, so let the meetings go on and on and let them all live in their luxery what ever but one day the Nation will rise up but not in my time as the Brits have always been known as LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER , well it is CHILDREN TO THE SLAUGHTER
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http://paedophile-unit.beforeitsnews.com/politics/2013/05/ken-clarke-mp-is-above-the-law-and-cannot-be-questioned-says-metropolitan-police-paedophile-unit-2517078.html
I wonder if old Ken Clarke MP will sue the victims and whistle blowers whilst the Governments sit along side of him in the Commons with their freebie drinks and all laughing.
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Government is stripping UK children of rights, says report to UN …
http://www.theguardian.com/…/government-stripping-uk-children-rights-report-un –
The recent report but they will continue to laugh and laugh and abuse the children and to sell them
Article 1
States Parties shall prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography as provided for by the present Protocol.
Article 2
For the purposes of the present Protocol:
(a) Sale of children means any act or transaction whereby a child is transferred by any person or group of persons to another for remuneration or any other consideration;
. Article 3
1. Each State Party shall ensure that, as a minimum, the following acts and activities are fully covered under its criminal or penal law, whether such offences are committed domestically or transnationally or on an individual or organized basis:
(a) In the context of sale of children as defined in article 2:
(I) Offering, delivering or accepting, by whatever means, a child for the purpose of:
Remuneration Definition
Reward for employment in the form of pay, salary, or wage, including allowances, benefits (such as company car, medical plan, pension plan), bonuses, cash incentives, and monetary value of the noncash incentives.
SO WHAT ARE ALL OF THE FOSTER AND ADOPTION AGENTS DOING YES SELLING THE CHILDREN AND FOR THIS and only for this reason THE CHILDREN ARE A MULTIBILLION POUND INDUSTRY .
It would be great if only the legal people in the UK or the UN brought a case to court as nothing is more clear then governments and the UN breaking their own laws as written above NO CHILD TO BE SOLD FOR REMUNERATION
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The program “long lost families ” ITV it is not often I watch TV but this program really brings tears, at the age of 72 having seen so much sadness in the world it is not often I cry, the last time was four years ago when some one I loved so dearly was dragged from his hands and kees begging crying a river to stay with ? in actuel fact that day was the last of my tears because then on came the fight for justice, but watching LONG LOST FAMILIES is a sadness that the Governments need to watch and to know what they are doing to the nations children by the forced adoptions and fostering, whilst I agree some children do need the support what Governments should be doing is for all of the thousands of kids adopted and fosterd AND THOUSANDS LOOKING FOR THEIR FAMILIES is to keep them in the link with their biological familes and recently I handed into NO 10 a letter saying so and that the only way forward at the moment is to let families via FAMILIES FOREVER STORYBOOKS keep in touch with their children. I am still waiting for a reply. But to watch Long Lost Families is a most important program and to join it with FAMILIES FOREVER STORYBOOKS maybe some of the answers and to stop all of the money making debates going on and on for a lost nation of kids in care.
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Reblogged this on National Inquiry into Organised, Orchestrated & Historic Child Sexual Abuse and commented:
Around WWI and WWII there was always enough money for war, but never enough for health and education.
Now there is enough money to keep the enquirers in their above average lifestyle, while nobody cares about victims and survivors.
All thanks to the ‘public gravy train’ of bankers creating money from hot air and selling it to governments as ‘national debt’ when then pay their buddies and ‘old boys network associates’…
Never mind. Most people do have a conscience and don’t switch it off. But too many seem to be able to do so still…
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This is where our tax money goes – to get what??
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A Mother who experienced the horrifying injustice of losing her child to his abuser by reporting sexual abuse, has published two novels on Amazon. The books are called a “Mummy where are you?” and “Mummy’s still here” and follow her harrowing journey from running to going to jail and losing all contact with her child. It’s a terrible but by no means unique story that is happening to many in the UK. Please read, review, blog and share to help these go viral and raise awareness. I know the mother and can vouch for the authenticity of the accounts and she did this at huge personal risk due to a global lifelong gagging order. The books are fictionalised and written under s pseudonym but we need to speak out against injustice not lie down. Please support her by posting reviews and sharing the links.
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An example of our government’s jobs for the boys! This is a perfect opportunity to raid the tax payers cache to make those involved richer under the guise of justice for those abused. The abused are just an excuse! It works in the same way as the family courts snatching kids from their homes, a money merry-go-round! £1.2 million is just the first rung. Remember 40% or more is returned to the government in taxes!
Totally unnecessary, it would have been cheaper to acknowledged it happened, apologise and pay compensation to those abused. The police, who are paid to investigate, should bring the perpetrators to justice, without the lengthy court trials that ensue when QC’s and family court Barristers, who already know the outcomes, get involved!
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