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# London 2012 Olympics: question marks remain over security budget despite
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reports of reduced costs
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## Security is the big unknown surrounding the London 2012 Olympic Games. It
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follows then that the budget for that security is similarly underscored with a
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huge question mark.
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![London 2012 Olympics: question marks remain over security budget despite
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reports of reduced costs][1]
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Read the smallprint: the headlines may have screamed budget cuts for London
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2012 and a reduced security cost, but that is misleading Photo: GETTY IMAGES
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[![Jacquelin Magnay][2]][3]
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By [Jacquelin Magnay][4], Olympics Editor 1:53PM GMT 14 Dec 2010
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[Comments][5]
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This week the Minister for Security, Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, revealed
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in Parliament the cost to British taxpayers could be as low as £475 million.
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But as with all accounts and despite the most rigorous of planning, the end
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figure may be somewhat different. Interestingly Baroness Neville-Jones
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indicated in the same speech that the end cost, in the event of a major
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security scare, may very well top £2 billion.
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The headlines may have screamed budget cuts and a reduced security cost, but
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that is misleading. For these are the figures that she revealed.
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The Olympic safety and security budget will actually stay at £600 million -
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the same figure it has been at for the past three years - but the security
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experts are hopeful that the total cost will come in much cheaper at £475
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million - most of this incurred by paying police.
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But just in case there is an upgrade in security threat levels, with the
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planning already predicated on the second highest threat level of severe that
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extra money will be there at the ready.
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## Related Articles
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* [Olympic security spending could be down by a fifth][6]
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14 Dec 2010
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* [Olympic spending under review][7]
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27 May 2010
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* [Bureaucrats 'hamper' Olympic security][8]
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27 Jan 2009
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* [Olympic security 'jeopardised'][9]
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12 Jan 2009
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* [London expected to break Olympic security record][10]
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04 Dec 2008
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Baroness Neville-Jones said she believed the delivery of the security
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programme, if it came in at £475 million, would not create additional risks.
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But Baroness Neville-Jones has organised for another £280 million to be
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transferred to the London Organising committee (LOCOG) for it to deliver the
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in-venue security arrangements.
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A lot of this will be to pay private security contractors and these are the
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security arrangements that will impact directly on Games visitors with
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perimeter fencing and airport style screening at entrances.
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This money will also pay to integrate the Met Police operation inside the
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Olympic sites. But the biggest cost hasn't been factored into the Olympic
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security and safety budget, nor that of Locog's. It is the counter-terrorism
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cost exceeding £560 million annually.
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Baroness Neville Jones conceded to parliament that "much" of the £1.131
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billion for the two years of the government's 2011-2013 counter-terrorism
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budgets would be devoted to the Olympics in 2012.
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If that isn't quite enough financial cushioning for any security scares, there
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is also the general pool of Olympic contingency funds, which currently stands
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at around £500 million and which can be applied to any of the Olympic
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projects.
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"Olympic safety and security for 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a
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priority for this government, the planning is well advanced and on schedule,"
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Baroness Neville Jones said.
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At the end of the day the government is underwriting the cost of the Olympic
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Games and any budget blow out will be borne by the taxpayer accordingly.
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## [Olympics][16]
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* ### [Sport »][17]
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* ### [Olympics News »][18]
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* ### [Jacquelin Magnay »][3]
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IN SPORT
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### [London 2012 interactive schedule][20]
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* [Paralympic World Cup can help London 2012 be catalyst for success][35]
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### [20 Questions][37]
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