Re: Costs...
No, the new laptops, broadband, etc will be covered by the £10k increase in expenses MPs were allocated a month ago.
It had bloody better be.
The £370k/month probably includes third party resources for capturing, editing and converting the Zoom video into an appropriate format for archival (and putting on the Parliament website), streaming it live, making it available to the Media, and, if we're lucky, securing the damn thing.
If nothing else, instead of storing 6 hours times a dozen cameras worth of footage each day, they're now adding another 6 hours of up to 120 more cameras. That's an additional terabyte a day, plus backups, capacity for editing, etc.
It does still feel extremely high though.