Sutcliffe was accompanied by four prison officers

Sutcliffe, 58, was allowed out of Broadmoor top-security hospital to visit Arnside in Cumbria where his late father's ashes were scattered.

Home Office Minister Paul Goggins revealed the cost to the House of Commons on Tuesday.

Critics have asked why taxpayers should fund the expense.

Victims of Crime Trust director Norman Brennan said: "Sutcliffe killed 13 women yet there seems to be no question about the expense of allowing him to have a day out in the countryside."

Four accompanying prison guards cost �1,800 and two Cumbria police officers �450, Mr Goggins told the Commons.

Mass killer

Sutcliffe's father, John, died from cancer in a West Yorkshire hospice last year.

The mass killer was not allowed out for the funeral but Home Secretary Charles Clarke ratified an earlier decision by David Blunkett to let him out in January.

The decision provoked outrage from Leeds North East MP Fabian Hamilton who has many of Sutcliffe's victims' families in his constituency.

Sutcliffe was jailed for life in May 1981 at the Old Bailey after a killing spree which started in 1975 and saw 13 women murdered and seven others left for dead across the north of England.