They could split the £50M fine on G4S and split it amongst the 17,000 troops involved.
This would be £3,000k each. Enough compensation for a couple of weeks forced work I'd say.
Compare this to the £284M the contract to G4S is worth. As they were to provide 14,000 security staff, this works out at £20,000 for each security worker, which doesn't really stack up with the £6.5/hour that has also been quoted as what the workers are actually earning.
3 weeks full time (40hrs) at £6.5/hour is £800. Wonder where the other £19,200 per worker is being spent? Perhaps if G4S had been more generous in their pay they would have been able to recruit.
Something very nasty here about the cost effectiveness of the private sector in these contracts. Good job that Bernard Gray isn't talking about basing the future of DE&S procurement on some sort of Olympic Delivery Authority model.........
Link - to be fair he raises some good points in his initial answer to Q90:
House of Commons - Uncorrected Evidence - HC9-ii