HC Deb 10 February 1993 vol 218 c658W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what was the total amount of the entrance fees collected at those royal palaces open to the public for the latest year for which figures are available; and to what purposes the revenues are applied.

Mr. Key

This is an operational matter for the Historic Royal Palaces agency which is responsible for managing those royal palaces open to the public. I have therefore asked the chief executive of the agency to reply to the hon. Member and will arrange for his reply to be published in theOfficial Report.

Letter from David Beeton to Mr. Gordon Prentice, dated 5 February 1993: The Minister has asked me to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about entrance fees collected at the Royal Palaces. My Agency is responsible for the management of the Historic Royal Palaces. The Agency's income and expenditure for 1991–92 was:-

£ million £ million
Total Expenditure (net of VAT refunds) — 23.5
Entrance Charge income 10.1 —
Other Business income 5.7 15.8
Borne by the taxpayer — 7.7

You may be interested in the enclosed copy of our latest Annual Report and Accounts, which includes full details of our income and expenditure in 1991–92. Copies of this report may also be found in the House of Commons Library.

The Government has no funding or supervisory responsibility for entrance charges at the occupied Royal Palaces.