The Royal Family! Fantastic value.
 

Last year, the Queen cost less than her European counterparts
The Queen and the Royal Family cost the UK taxpayer £37.4m in the last financial year, her financial public accounts reveal.
The cost, equivalent to 62p per person in the UK, rose 4.2% over the previous year, accountants said.

The increase was partly blamed on extra security vetting undertaken at Buckingham Palace.

It followed a national newspaper exposure when a reporter obtained a job as a footman there.


Royal Public Finances summary [164kb]
Freedom of information inquiries and the cost of a number of long-haul overseas visits by members of the Royal Family, also contributed to the rise.

Travel costs increased by 10% to £5.5 million.

62p would buy you a ticket for one minute of England's game against Portugal on Saturday.

Chip

You could put another 1600-2000 police officers on the street or nurses in hospitals for the same amount for a year :)

Think you need to look at the bigger picture here. The income from tourism alone far outweighs the amount the queen recieves to run the royal household which would still need financing whether we had a monarch or not.

Chip

I never argued that fact. There is no king of France, but plenty people visit Paris :)

She's an asset to this country..... "Long live the Queen....." :thumb:

That's a shít load of cardboard boxes required and unnecessary voilence all in one statement. :mad:

That's not very likely given her age ;)

She spends most of her time living up the road from me anyway, she's not daft. I just can't work out what it is she does these days :lol1:

The longer the better.... she's been GREAT for BRITAIN....... one of the few royals you can count on.........:thumb:

But WHAT has she done ? :confused:

I had to google it :)

http://www.britischebotschaft.de/sta.../faq/index.htm

Quote:

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Justice:
The Queen can, on ministerial advice, pardon or show mercy to those convicted of crimes. In law the Queen as a private person can do no wrong: she is immune from civil or criminal proceedings and cannot be sued in courts of law. This immunity is not shared by other members of the royal family.

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:mad:

A lot more than we'll ever do.

Chip

Kept Charles off the throne :)

Looks like this threads been muppetised :rolleyes:

But what have the Romans ever done for us? :D

Even if we paid you 37.4 million quid a year and gave you masses of land and property ?

Yes, but think how much more revenue 1600-2000 police officers could generate once each has been armed with a laser gun.

;)

Just out of interest, cos I honestly don't know, does the government pay rent at proper market value for all of the crown properties they use?

I assume it's rent free?

Otherwise we'd be paying the goverment to pay the queen :lol1:

The Queen and all the senior Royals do a lot of good work. Having been to a couple of her garden parties at the palace and after seeing my mother being honoured by her last year i've learnt a lot more about just how much work the Queen does - it's a lot, far far from an easy life. Having done it now for 50 years (a normal persons working life is what, 40 years ish?) she deserves all our respect :)

How much income from tourism does the Royal Family generate? More than £37m I shoukld think

How much revenue does one speed camera generate ? more than £20,000 :norty:

The tower of London alone brings in over £25m annually.

Chip

The aquaduct ! :D

Well yes, but she does own the property and therefore would have a reasonable case in charging rent...I'm guessing this would more than adequately cover any cost that the tax payer currently pays towards the royal family. So fairs fair then.

p.s. don't forget the wine :) oh and the roads, well maybe not the roads...

Another vote for the queen !

Cant wait for William to become King !!!
The royal family are now moving with the times, thats thanks for the likes of Diana and the Queen Mother.

Im flying the flag for the Royals

LOL. :D

Took me a second to realise what the feck you were on about.

I think its a great investment by the taxpayer as the Americans and people from Asia etc travel far and wide from errr America and Asia to see her, thrusting many sterlings into our Labour Party demoralised economy...
God save our splendid Queen
Long live our smashing Queen
God save our Queen
(It's just a pity she doesnt look like Queenie from Blackadder though :norty:)