How much does the royal family cost? A breakdown of the key figures

Listed here are some of the key figures from the royal accounts for 2022-2023.
– £86.3 million – The full taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant, made up of £51.8 million for the “core” funding and an additional £34.5 million for the reservicing of Buckingham Palace.
– £107.5 million – Official internet expenditure by the monarchy, an increase of £5.1 million or 5% from £102.4 million in 2021/2022.
– £1.6 million – Quantity spent from the Sovereign Grant on the late Queen’s funeral.
– £700,000 – Quantity spent from the Sovereign Grant on the Platinum Jubilee (together with £300,000 from 2022-23)
– 517 – Full-time equal workers paid for from the Sovereign Grant, together with fastened time period contracts, up from 491.
– £27.1 million – The wage invoice for employees, up £3.4 million, or 14%, from £23.7 million the 12 months earlier than.
– £2.4 million – Value of housekeeping and hospitality for the royal family, up £1.1 million from £1.3 million.
– £3.9 million – Value of official royal journey, a drop of £0.6 million or about 13%, from £4.5 million the earlier 12 months.
– £1.02 million – Value of 179 helicopter journeys made by members of the royal family.
– £186,571 – Value of constitution flights for the King and Queen to Rwanda for the Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly.
– £146,219 – Constitution flights for the King and Queen’s first official state go to, to Germany in March 2023.
– £25,687 – Value of a residence-to-residence constitution flight for the King, when he flew from Aberdeen to Northolt in October 2022.
– £1.29 – Value per individual in the UK of funding the whole Sovereign Grant
– 77p – Value per individual of the “core” half of the Sovereign Grant for official duties, not together with funds for the long-term Buckingham Palace works.
– 183,207 – Gadgets of correspondence acquired by Buckingham Palace in 2022-23 together with 67,693 earlier than the Queen’s demise, and 115,244 afterwards, making it the busiest 12 months on report for incoming submit.
– 9.7% – Proportion of workers from ethnic minority backgrounds working for Buckingham Palace, in contrast with 9.7% in 2021-22 and eight.5% in 2020-21. The goal was 10% and is now 14%.
– 16.3% – Proportion of workers from ethnic minority backgrounds working for Kensington Palace. (13.6% final 12 months)
– Greater than 2,700 – Official engagements by members of the royal family in the UK and abroad, in contrast with 2,300 final 12 months.
– £5.9 million – Prince of Wales’s non-public revenue from the Duchy of Cornwall landed property – for about six months he spent as a brand new inheritor to the throne in 2022-23.
– £6.9 million – Quantity of cash stored by the landed property for day-to-day operating, as a substitute of going to William as wage.
– £12.8 million – Wage the King acquired as the Prince of Wales from the Duchy.
– £24 million – The full annual Duchy of Cornwall revenue for 2022-23, which might ordinarily have been William’s full wage.