Public Inquiry

Litvinenko Inquiry

Completed · Chair: Sir Robert Owen · Established January 2015 · Commissioned by Home Office

Inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned with polonium-210 in London in 2006.

Where it stands

The Litvinenko Inquiry: Report into the death of Alexander Litvinenko was published on 21 January 2016.

The inquiry made no formal recommendations.

Reports

Reports and timeline

Recent milestones

  • Final Report Published21 January 2016
  • Inquiry Established27 January 2015
  • Inquiry Announced22 July 2014
Full timeline

Costs

£2,380,000

Reported cost Costs in detail

Parliament

7

mentions in Parliament Parliamentary activity

Reports and timeline

Timeline

Inquiry Announced

Inquiry Established

Final Report Published

Parliamentary activity

7 mentions since Feb 2015
2 debates 3 questions 2 statements

Public Inquiries

Written Question House of Commons Simon Hoare · Conservative

Asked: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the official closing date under section 14 of the Inquiries Act 2005 was for the public inquiries entitled (a) Anthony Grainger Inquiry, (b) The Litvinenko Inquiry and (c) Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

Answered by Home Office: a) The Anthony Grainger Inquiry published its report on 11 July 2019. b) The Litvinenko Inquiry published its final report on 21 January 2016. c) The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) closed under section 14 of the Inquiries Act on 31 March 2023.

Inquiries

Written Question House of Commons Tulip Siddiq · Labour

Asked: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many restriction (a) notices and (b) orders her Department has issued to restrict inquiries under (i) section 19(1)(a) and (ii) section 19(1)(b) of the Inquiries Act 2005 in each year since 2009-10 (A) in …

Answered by Home Office: Since 2009, under section 19(2)(a) of the Inquiries Act 2005,the Secretary of State for the Home Department has issued a total of four restriction notices - two in 2014 and two in 2015. All four were in relation to the Litvinenko Inquiry. The Secretary of State for the Home Department has not issued any restriction notices for the Undercover Policing …

Litvinenko Inquiry

Hansard Debate House of Commons

Said: Commons Chamber

Litvinenko Inquiry

Written Question House of Commons Daniel Kawczynski · Conservative

Asked: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was to the public purse of the public inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko; and what the average cost was to the public purse of inquiries into suspicious deaths undertaken by …

Answered by Home Office: The public inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko publishes costs on its website https://www.litvinenkoinquiry.org/costs. As of 31st December 2015, the inquiry had spent £2.25m. Final figures are still being calculated. Coroners are a local service, funded independently of central government by local authorities. The total cost to the public of inquiries into suspicious deaths over the last three years …

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Recommendation tracking

The inquiry made one recommendation concerning closed evidence. Its text was not published (report paragraphs 7.10 and 2.24).

Key facts

Duration: 11 months Total reported cost: £2.4m