Margaret Thatcher's funeral security cost £1.1 million

Thatcher funeral cost £3.6m

Baroness Thatcher's ceremonial funeral at St Paul's Cathedral cost the taxpayer an estimated £3.6 million, Downing Street said today.

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In a statement the Cabinet Office said that the estimated costs for Lady Thatcher’s funeral ceremony are around £500,000.

This includes the costs incurred by St Paul’s Cathedral, the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office, the invitation printers, and staff overtime.

The coffin bearing the body of Baroness Thatcher outside St Paul's Cathedral. Credit: David Crump/Daily Mail/PA Wire

The provisional estimate of the direct policing and security costs for the funeral are around £1.1 million.

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