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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ben Lynch

The huge bill taxpayers are having to pay to stop homeless camp returning in Park Lane

The encampment that used to be in Park Lane - (LDRS)

Transport for London (TfL) has spent more than £113,000 in three months on a security firm hired to prevent rough sleepers returning to Park Lane.

The transport authority hired the company, understood to be MEC Security, this summer after an encampment of rough sleepers was removed from the site. In response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request submitted by the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), TfL has said that between July and September it spent £113,365 on security at Park Lane.

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