§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report the annuities currently received by those persons previously provided with such annuities within the Civil List.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettThe following annuities are currently payable under the provisions of the Civil List Acts.
£ The Queen's Civil List 1,400,000 HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 95,000 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh 65,000 HRH The Princess Anne 35,000 HRH The Princess Margaret 35,000 HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester 20,000 The sum of £85,000 a year payable to the Royal Trustees under Section 3 of the Civil List Act 1972 is currently apportioned as follows:
£ HRH The Duke of Kent 35,000 HRH Princess Alexandra, Mrs. Angus Ogilvy 30,000 HRH The Duke of Gloucester 15,000 HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone 5,000 In addition, payments are mady by way of superannuation benefits to or on behalf of staff of the Royal Household and for Civil List pensions; the following amounts were paid in 1974–75, being the 350W heads of expenditure mentioned in Command Paper No. 6393 where it is stated that there could be a charge on the contingency reserve.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettThe following is the information:
latest period for which information is readily available:
£ Royal Household pensions … 173,172 Civil List pensions … 52,882 To date no payments have been made under the provisions of the Civil List Act 1975.