The royals?

Question

How much does the royal family cost the Uk each year. Not interested in idiots that write too much. I want to see some figures. And how much does it make in tourism. And pay in wages to all the people that are employed by the royal family.

Answer 1

THE CIVIL LIST

The Civil List is the sum provided by Parliament to meet the official expenses of The Queen's Household so that Her Majesty can fulfil her role as Head of State and Head of the Commonwealth.

It is not in any sense 'pay' for The Queen, but funding for her official work.

The Civil List dates back to the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, but the current system was created on the accession of George III in 1760.

In that year it was decided that the whole cost of civil government should be provided by Parliament in return for the surrender of the hereditary revenues (mainly the net surplus of the Crown Estate) by the Sovereign.

In the financial year 2005-06 the revenue surplus from the Crown Estate paid to the Treasury amounted to £190.8 million.

As a result of Royal Household efficiency savings and lower than expected inflation during the period up to December 2000, a reserve of £35.3 million was carried forward. The annual amount of the Civil List for the next 10 years for the period up to December 2010 remained fixed at £7.9 million.

In 2005, Civil List expenditure amounted to £11.2m. Since the transfer of additional expenditure to the Civil List with effect from 1 April 2001, Civil List expenditure exceeds the annual £7.9 million payment, and amounts are therefore now withdrawn from the reserve each year, rather than being paid into it.

The budget for each year's projected net Civil List spending is reviewed by the Treasury, which audits the accounts and verifies that the Household's financial management is in line with best practice.

About 70 per cent of Civil List expenditure goes to pay the salaries of staff working directly for The Queen.

Answer 2

Monarchy dosen't pay any wages. We the people of Britain pay the Queen to pay the wages of flunkys. The Queen dosen't get tourists. The Royal Palaces which she dosen't own gets tourists. The Queen dose not bring any money into Britain. The palaces would not crumble into dust if her head was to be chopped off. We would however expect an increase in tourism to see such a spectacle.

The breakdown of costs.

Monarchy Costs

Housing Grant
The Grant-in-aid voted by Parliament for 1990-91 (before the Royal Household assumed responsibility) was £25.7 million; expenditure was reduced to £14.3 million in 2005-06.

Civil List
In 2005, Civil List expenditure amounted to £11.2m. Since the transfer of additional expenditure to the Civil List with effect from 1 April 2001, Civil List expenditure exceeds the annual £7.9 million payment, and amounts are therefore now withdrawn from the reserve each year, rather than being paid into it.

Travle Cost
The Grant-in-aid for the year to 31 March 2006 was £5.9 million (£5.7 million in 2004-05). Actual expenditure during the year was £5.5 million (£5.0m in 2004-05). This represents a reduction of 72% in absolute terms and 76% in real terms during the nine years since the Royal Household assumed responsibility for Royal travel expenditure.

The Queen and the Royal Family cost the taxpayer 62p per person per year, Buckingham Palace accounts revealed today. The total cost of keeping the monarchy in the last financial year rose by 4.2 per cent to £37.4 million, royal accountants said.

Answer 3

The precise figure on how much the British monarchy cost the tax payer each year is never released as each government department from the home office foreign office, defence dept. even the dept. of transport and dept. of environment has to pick up the cost's of there various jaunt's and activities. Of course die hard royalist will quote you that old chestnut that "they are value for money" and quote you all sort's of bizarre figure's but the real cost is impossible to say as they are hidden in various government department's.

Answer 4

LOL I love you and everyone else who asks this question.

She doesn't actually cost US anything BECAUSE

Money in the UK is printed and produced by the Royal Mint; so technically you are spending the Queen's money and when you pay tax you are simply giving it back.

If the Royals need money they can just print more; I mean they don't need our money they don't spend it; the government simply recirculates everything through the treasury.

Answer 5

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN and **** anyone from any other country who says she's not worth having or the Royals cost to much. You don't ever hear our Queen making a public apology for having 'Sexual relations' like some I could mention.

Answer 6

There are no figures. The cost of security for them is never calculated. They have many homes and each one has to be guarded by the taxpayer.
Few tourists ever see any of the royal family in person which is the same for their subjects.
If they were retired, tourists would still come as they do to republics like France and theUSA.

Answer 7

i take it back:
The Queen and the Royal Family cost the taxpayer 62p per person per year, Buckingham Palace accounts revealed today. The total cost of keeping the monarchy in the last financial year rose by 4.2 per cent to £37.4 million, royal accountants said.

Answer 8

About £1 per year for each adult and the cost is about the same for canadians citizens too.

Answer 9

the royals bring in nothing at all......tourists tend to go and see castles and palaces, the royals may as well be invisible for all they do. The fact that english people have to pay the same as tourists to go to places like buck house and the tower is a national disgrace, the people of england own those places, it should be their right to go and see what they are paying for at no cost.

Answer 10

It costs the average taxpayer 17p a year while it brings in around 35 milion per year in tourism.