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Debate on bill and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Thursday, 14 July 2011, in the House of Commons, led by George Osborne. The answering member was Ed Balls.

Sovereign Grant Bill

Allocation of time motion agreed to on question. Second reading agreed to on question and Bill stood committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Committee stage debate. Clauses 1 and 2 agreed to. Clauses 3 to 6 ordered to stand part. Clause 7 agreed to as amended. Clauses 8 to 17 ordered to stand part. Schedules 1 and 2 agreed to. Bill reported as amended. Report stage agreed to on question. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question and Bill passed.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
531 c526-83 
Session
2010-12
Department
Treasury
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Third reading
Report stage
Second reading
Procedure
Allocation of time motions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Michael Ellis | 531 c557 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman refers to concern about value for money. Does he accept that the royal family bri...
Lord Beamish | 531 c557 (Link to this contribution) I was about to conclude, but go on.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c557-8 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Chancellor concluded his remarks by saying that he had looked up the Commons Journal for ...
Lord Beamish | 531 c557 (Link to this contribution) That is another debate and it is difficult to quantify what the hon. Gentleman says is brought in. I...
Lord Beamish | 531 c555-6 (Link to this contribution) I also chaired the value for money group in the Ministry of Defence, and those costs were on the rad...
Michael Ellis | 531 c557 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Beamish | 531 c556-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not suggesting that somehow they should be taken out of the military while they do these du...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c558 (Link to this contribution) I remember the secret treaty of Dover well, although I was not an active participant. However, it is...
William Cash | 531 c558 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend conscious of the fact that at the time of the secret treaty of Dover in 1670, the ...
Thomas Docherty | 531 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether I have more trepidation when I follow the hon. Member for North East Somerset ...
Speaker | 531 c581 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am speaking now from this big seat. It would be very good, firstly, if the hon. Gentleman c...
Dennis Skinner | 531 c581 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Bill is all about £35 million in the time of a recession. The truth is that people o...
Stephen Williams | 531 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief because I think a couple of other Members want to speak. As the Chancellor said earl...
Dennis Skinner | 531 c580-1 (Link to this contribution) First, I want to apologise for not being here in the earlier part of the day. I was at the hospital ...
Speaker | 531 c579 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are going far wide of what we are here to speak on, which is the Third Reading of the Bill...
Paul Flynn | 531 c579 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr Leigh) made a point about the Bill and about whether those at B...
Dennis Skinner | 531 c582 (Link to this contribution) I know I have talked out several Bills in the past, but I did it by moving a debate on the writ for ...
Speaker | 531 c582 (Link to this contribution) Order. This is going to come as a great disappointment to you, Mr Skinner, but you cannot talk this ...
Dennis Skinner | 531 c582 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to explain that there are people out there who do not give a hoot about the royal family...
Speaker | 531 c581 (Link to this contribution) Order. I let the hon. Gentleman finish the story because I wanted to hear the end, but it still has ...
Jonathan Edwards | 531 c576-7 (Link to this contribution) I have a series of concerns with the Bill. First, it creates an artificial link between the profits ...
Mel Stride | 531 c577 (Link to this contribution) I feel that I must return to the status of the Crown Estate. Does not the hon. Gentleman accept that...
Jonathan Edwards | 531 c577 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree. My belief is that the Crown Estate in Wales should now be devolved to the Welsh Gove...
Paul Flynn | 531 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Jonathan Edwards). I agr...
Speaker | 531 c578 (Link to this contribution) I have already had to remind Mr Flynn that when he is referring to the royal family, he should do so...
Thomas Docherty | 531 c578 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Could you remind me whether it is appropriate for an hon. Me...
Tristram Hunt | 531 c578 (Link to this contribution) On my hon. Friend's substantive point, does he not think that the Fixed-term Parliaments Bill will w...
Paul Flynn | 531 c578 (Link to this contribution) That is a splendid illustration of the fact that we are infantilised and incapable of the freedom of...
Tristram Hunt | 531 c572 (Link to this contribution) Among the public as a whole. We in opposition should be brave and confident enough to think about s...
Tristram Hunt | 531 c572 (Link to this contribution) In Committee, the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr Leigh) said that the monarchy was a fragile insti...
Ed Balls | 531 c571-2 (Link to this contribution) I echo the Chancellor's thanks to Members on both sides of the House for the way in which they have ...
Oliver Heald | 531 c573 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman, but does he agree that that is the reason why we do ...
Tristram Hunt | 531 c573-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but he knows far better than I do that, of course, ...
Thomas Docherty | 531 c573 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has demonstrated that he has a far superior knowledge of history than perhaps any oth...
Tristram Hunt | 531 c573 (Link to this contribution) I take my hon. Friend's point, but we should not over-emphasise our Whiggish stability over the year...
Michael Ellis | 531 c575 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Tristram Hunt), who is clearly ...
Thomas Docherty | 531 c575 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman refers to the level of scrutiny that the household finances receive, but this deb...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 531 c564 (Link to this contribution) The Question is proposed that the amendment be made.
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 531 c564-5 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment 6, page 6, line 7, leave out '7...
John McDonnell | 531 c564 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Evans. I do not wish to move the amendment at this stage. Having made my sta...
Kerry McCarthy | 531 c565-6 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak briefly to amendment 8. This would introduce a check on potential future rises in in...
Ed Balls | 531 c566-7 (Link to this contribution) When I said that there would be a 3.2% real-terms rise from next year until the end of the Parliamen...
George Osborne | 531 c567 (Link to this contribution) The point I was making was that, although there are lumpy movements in individual years—in 2010-11, ...
George Osborne | 531 c567 (Link to this contribution) Over the Parliament. But the point is that it strikes the right balance between too much and too lit...
George Osborne | 531 c570-1 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I shall be brief. I want to thank the Hous...
Ian Davidson | 531 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) Of course, as my hon. Friend says, that biscuit would be a Bourbon. It is worth while clarifying th...
John McDonnell | 531 c564 (Link to this contribution) It is an unfortunate name, but there we are. People working in the royal household for companies su...
George Osborne | 531 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree that it is all about effectiveness and dignity, and I think that the Bill strikes the right ...
John McDonnell | 531 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to amendment 1, page 2, line 31, at end add—"““(4A) The statement must be accompanie...
George Osborne | 531 c561-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall deal briefly—because time is short—with the points raised. I should say first, however, that...
William Cash | 531 c562 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor referred just now to something that I found difficult to accept. He distinguished bet...
Mel Stride | 531 c561 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Ian Davidson | 531 c560 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to follow a speech like that because in many ways, it took the biscuit.
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c559 (Link to this contribution) It is always an honour to give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Paul Flynn | 531 c559-60 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way before he goes into hyper-rant. Does he realise t...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c559 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman, but I think it is immeasurably confusing when we start try...
Michael Ellis | 531 c559 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the fact that each sovereign since 1760 has been asked by successive ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c559 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is of course right. It is often said that Her Majesty is the golden thread that bin...
Ian Davidson | 531 c552 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the former Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee for giving way, and I have to ...
George Osborne | 531 c553 (Link to this contribution) The part about my involvement is completely untrue.
Edward Leigh | 531 c553 (Link to this contribution) I do not know the exact truth about that particular aspect.
Edward Leigh | 531 c553 (Link to this contribution) All that I know—the Public Accounts Committee having had all those accounts over the past two decade...
Ian Davidson | 531 c552-3 (Link to this contribution) I can assure the House that, when I have travelled abroad, I have certainly never taken a hairdresse...
Edward Leigh | 531 c552 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the Queen or the Prince of Wales charges ““extravagant”” aspects of their priv...
Lord Beamish | 531 c553 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that this country's defence budget should subsidise the royal flight? ...
Edward Leigh | 531 c553 (Link to this contribution) This debate is useful in a way, because it shows precisely the problem. I understand that the Duke a...
Edward Leigh | 531 c553 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way; I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman once. I want to emphasise this p...
Edward Leigh | 531 c552 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that we must take everything in the round. I was making comparisons with the Heads of St...
Paul Flynn | 531 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, although I am sorry that he has not answered my ...
Edward Leigh | 531 c551 (Link to this contribution) Let me go on a bit and then I shall give way to both hon. Members, as I want to be fair to both side...
Edward Leigh | 531 c551 (Link to this contribution) I am going to develop my point; the hon. Gentleman can come in later. We have seen that agenda in t...
Paul Flynn | 531 c551 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Edward Leigh | 531 c550 (Link to this contribution) May I make some progress first? I want to develop this point and if the hon. Gentleman is not satisf...
Paul Flynn | 531 c550 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mark Spencer | 531 c552 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that, as we are talking not only about the Head of State but about the nex...
Edward Leigh | 531 c552 (Link to this contribution) We live in such a public world now that the Prime Minister took Ryanair when he went on holiday.
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 531 c554 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr Leigh) giving way, or has he sat down?
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 531 c554 (Link to this contribution) As Members can see, there are at least six people trying to get in on the debate on this clause; we ...
Edward Leigh | 531 c554 (Link to this contribution) That is a serious and important point. We have had mention of the Duchy of Cornwall; I should say th...
Stephen Phillips | 531 c554 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I have ever been desperate to get into anything. I think it was in 2005, when my ...
Edward Leigh | 531 c554 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Stephen Phillips) is desperate...
Andrew Murrison | 531 c555 (Link to this contribution) Until recently the hon. Gentleman was a Defence Minister, and a very good one, so I wonder, since he...
Lord Beamish | 531 c555 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but what I am talking about does not relate to security. I am talking about equerries and other...
Mark Spencer | 531 c555 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that defending our nation includes defending our Head of State?
Lord Beamish | 531 c554-5 (Link to this contribution) The aim of the Bill is right: to provide the sovereign with the funds that she and other members of ...
Ian Davidson | 531 c534 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor mentioned his view that income from the Duchy of Cornwall and the Duchy of Lancaster ...
George Osborne | 531 c534 (Link to this contribution) I should make it clear that it is an established principle that the income from that property, which...
Lord Beamish | 531 c534 (Link to this contribution) A couple of weeks ago I welcomed the increased transparency in the auditing process that the proposa...
George Osborne | 531 c534 (Link to this contribution) Let me give way to the hon. Member for Glasgow South West (Mr Davidson) and then I will answer both ...
George Osborne | 531 c534 (Link to this contribution) Let me just answer this point before giving way again. Although I do not want to speak for the Comp...
George Osborne | 531 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) I will move on shortly to some of the issues that the hon. Gentleman raised two weeks ago on the use...
Matt Hancock | 531 c534-5 (Link to this contribution) As the most senior member of the Public Accounts Committee in the Chamber—because I am the only one ...
Lord Beamish | 531 c533 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that if we are have true transparency in the costs of the royal ...
George Osborne | 531 c537 (Link to this contribution) Let us try to keep focused on the issue at hand. Secondly, I completely accept that I could have br...
George Osborne | 531 c537 (Link to this contribution) First, I do not want to speak for the Queen, but I think she is quite familiar with the Scottish coa...
George Osborne | 531 c538 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee wants to intervene on that point.
George Osborne | 531 c538 (Link to this contribution) May I make some progress before taking a few further interventions? I should just mention, although...
Ian Davidson | 531 c537 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful. The Chancellor is undoubtedly correct that some pieces of property are tied in w...
George Osborne | 531 c537 (Link to this contribution) I will give way on that point and then make some progress on clause 1.
Ian Davidson | 531 c537 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer give way on that point?
George Osborne | 531 c535-6 (Link to this contribution) I would like to make a little progress, if both hon. Gentlemen will allow me. Let me say a little mo...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c536 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that in the theoretical circumstance that a new monarch decided to...
George Osborne | 531 c536 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is pretty unlikely and pretty theoretical, to be honest. Since 1760, it has been a...
Paul Flynn | 531 c536 (Link to this contribution) In the debate two weeks ago, the Member who represents the middle ages, the hon. Member for North Ea...
George Osborne | 531 c537 (Link to this contribution) I will deal in my remarks with that specific point about what will happen if the revenues of the Cro...
Tristram Hunt | 531 c537 (Link to this contribution) The guidance to the Bill suggests:"““The Crown Estate is not the sovereign's private property””." H...
George Osborne | 531 c537 (Link to this contribution) It is understood that there are certain pieces of property, such as Buckingham palace, Windsor castl...
George Osborne | 531 c535 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. When the Chair of the PAC, the right hon. Member for Barking (Margaret Hodge...
Stephen Williams | 531 c543;531 c542 (Link to this contribution) Given that the mausoleum is currently on the English Heritage buildings at risk register, will the C...
George Osborne | 531 c541-2 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, we could have chosen another mechanism, but I thought that it was not unreasonable t...
Paul Flynn | 531 c541 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to what the Chancellor has said, but I am still baffled as to why a simple...
George Osborne | 531 c541 (Link to this contribution) First, the reserve will be audited by the National Audit Office, as the legislation makes clear. Sec...
Lord Beamish | 531 c541 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chancellor explain how the controls over the reserve will work? Who will take the decisions...
George Osborne | 531 c540-1 (Link to this contribution) May I set out the checks and then invite questions—I mean interventions? I am not going to make the ...
George Osborne | 531 c540 (Link to this contribution) The money is not paid directly. It comes into the Exchequer, like other revenues, and is then paid o...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 531 c539 (Link to this contribution) Will the money from the Crown Estate be paid directly to the royal family or will it go to a third p...
George Osborne | 531 c539 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, but then I really must make more progress.
George Osborne | 531 c539 (Link to this contribution) That is not something that the Government are proposing today. If we were to propose it, we would of...
Ian Davidson | 531 c539 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor will be aware, from discussions on the Scotland Bill, of a proposal for part of the C...
George Osborne | 531 c538 (Link to this contribution) I think I will leave it to the Deputy Prime Minister to update the House on that. It is one of the m...
Lord Beamish | 531 c538-9 (Link to this contribution) That is very interesting, but if we do not know which Government Departments are subsidising the roy...
Edward Leigh | 531 c549-50 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has made that point. He is making the precise point I want to...
Paul Flynn | 531 c549 (Link to this contribution) I shall ask the question again. Is it an example of people with financial limits skimping when the h...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 531 c549 (Link to this contribution) I think that respect for members of the royal family is warranted and it would therefore be appropri...
Ed Balls | 531 c546-7 (Link to this contribution) It is obviously nostalgic for me to be back in Committee debating with the Chancellor of the Exchequ...
Lord Beamish | 531 c547 (Link to this contribution) I think the Chancellor has tried to have an effect on that by, for example, putting a cap on the res...
Paul Flynn | 531 c546 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, the royal trustees are the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and the Keeper of the ...
Paul Flynn | 531 c549 (Link to this contribution) One example of many of royal spending was a trip by Prince Charles and Camilla from Buckingham palac...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c549 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Evans. I wonder whether you would rule on the correct way of referring to Th...
Ed Balls | 531 c547-8 (Link to this contribution) As I said, part of the motivation behind our amendments to the clauses that deal with the role of th...
Edward Leigh | 531 c548-9 (Link to this contribution) I am humbled, Mr Evans, that you should have called me before my hon. Friend the Member for North Ea...
Ed Balls | 531 c544 (Link to this contribution) I shall deal with that point in a minute.
Lord Beamish | 531 c544 (Link to this contribution) I hear what my right hon. Friend says, but unless we know the full amount of money that is being pai...
Ed Balls | 531 c545-6 (Link to this contribution) What concerns me is not the fall in expenditure over the past 10 or 20 years, which most people woul...
Andrew Murrison | 531 c544 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that if those costs are indeed taken into account the reduction ...
George Osborne | 531 c543 (Link to this contribution) The honest answer is that I have absolutely no idea, but I will find out and let the hon. Gentleman ...
George Osborne | 531 c543 (Link to this contribution) I give way one final time, but then I shall conclude.
Lord Beamish | 531 c543 (Link to this contribution) Has not the Chancellor just confirmed that we are giving the royal household freedom to spend the so...
George Osborne | 531 c543 (Link to this contribution) We do not propose to add anything in. Frogmore is part of the Windsor castle estate, or part of the ...
Ed Balls | 531 c543-4 (Link to this contribution) I commend your patience and flexibility, Mr Hoyle, in allowing this clause stand part debate to incl...
Paul Flynn | 531 c529 (Link to this contribution) This point is crucial to why we need extra time. This issue is virtually unknown, but it is importan...
Speaker | 531 c529 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are talking about the allocation of time. I know that history is part of time but I am not...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 531 c530 (Link to this contribution) Members want to go back to 1700 and something. I am happy to go back to 1690. [Interruption.] Given ...
Denis MacShane | 531 c529-30 (Link to this contribution) It is a serious point that we are rushing through today a fundamental change. Reference has been mad...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 531 c531 (Link to this contribution) The Committee will have seen from the provisional selection list that I have selected a number of ma...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c530 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to go back to 1066, but I am not sure whether it was auspicious to schedule the debat...
Paul Flynn | 531 c529 (Link to this contribution) May I raise an issue in support of the points that many people have made about the role of the monar...
Speaker | 531 c529 (Link to this contribution) The stand part debate on clause 1 will be quite broad.
Edward Leigh | 531 c527 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I just need your guidance as I have a particular general poi...
Ed Balls | 531 c527 (Link to this contribution) We are clearly making a momentous decision today with the biggest change in the royal finances since...
George Osborne | 531 c526-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the following provisions shall apply to the proceedings on the Sovereign Grant B...
David Winnick | 531 c528 (Link to this contribution) Walsall North. Walsall South is your sister.
Keith Vaz | 531 c528 (Link to this contribution) I will detain the House for only a very short time. First, I strongly agree with the comments of my ...
David Winnick | 531 c528 (Link to this contribution) I emphasise that my remarks have nothing to do with the measure we will debate today. We can express...
Speaker | 531 c527 (Link to this contribution) I think we will need to listen to what the hon. Gentleman has to say.
Keith Vaz | 531 c528 (Link to this contribution) Walsall North (Mr Winnick); my hon. Friend is definitely not my sister, my hon. Friend the Member fo...
David Winnick | 531 c531 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I have listened to what the Chancellor said, but will he bear in mind that we did precise...
George Osborne | 531 c531 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause stand part of the Bill. I concede that we are engaged in a rather un...
George Osborne | 531 c532-3 (Link to this contribution) All I would say is that I have followed the advice of the House authorities throughout. The procedur...
Paul Flynn | 531 c532 (Link to this contribution) I do not think it is fair to blame the monarch for the way that the measures were rushed into the Ho...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 531 c532 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have sympathy for the hon. Gentleman, but we have just decided on the process that we are f...
George Osborne | 531 c532 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, and then I should probably make some progress on clause 1 stand part.
Paul Flynn | 531 c532 (Link to this contribution) A fortnight ago, the House was exceptionally thinly attended, even for a Thursday. Will the Chancell...
George Osborne | 531 c532 (Link to this contribution) The problem that Parliament had was that under the procedures of the House, we had to receive a grac...
Michael Ellis | 531 c556 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that these military equerries and the like are on secondment from...
Paul Flynn | 531 c578-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that many advances have been very beneficial. One of the most important was the decision we ...
George Osborne | 531 c566 (Link to this contribution) As was acknowledged by the shadow Chancellor, we have taken on board what I consider to be the most ...
Ian Davidson | 531 c561 (Link to this contribution) No, I want to proceed because we are short of time. I am seeking clarification from the Chancellor,...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c560 (Link to this contribution) There is a completely separate question, outside the remit of this debate, on the prerogative powers...
George Osborne | 531 c540 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I will make some progress. I hope that I have answered the sha...
George Osborne | 531 c539 (Link to this contribution) I will get back to the hon. Gentleman specifically on that point—I do not have specific information ...
Michael Ellis | 531 c575-6 (Link to this contribution) I think one can tell from the number of Members in the Chamber that the matter has been debated perf...
Ian Davidson | 531 c558-9 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that there is a distinction between the monarch as an individual a...
Keith Vaz | 531 c538 (Link to this contribution) I feel very guilty that the Chancellor has been speaking for so long and, because of all the interve...
George Osborne | 531 c531-2 (Link to this contribution) I cannot speak on what happened last week, but I would just draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to t...
Subjects
Disclosure of information Conditions of employment Accountability Accountancy Crown lands and estates Crown Estate Finance Expenditure Historic buildings Minimum wage National Audit Office Travel Repairs and maintenance Royal family Royal household Sovereign grant Committee of Public Accounts
Legislation
Sovereign Grant Bill 2010-12
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