Intelligence Services: Costs
Commons · Question 50297 · Tabled 6 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 14 May 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of monitoring the MI5 watchlist in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer
Answered by Dan Jarvis, 14 May 2025
The Chancellor confirmed in the Spring Statement on 26 March 2025 that the Single Intelligence Account, which provides funding for MI5, SIS and GCHQ, would increase this year to £4.6 billion. Funding for CT Policing, who work closely with MI5, also increa...