Article: Agenda 2001 Thursday, June 29th : One's cuts save taxpayers pounds 3m.(Features)

Byline: PETER ARCHER

THE Royal Family has saved the taxpayer pounds 3 million in budget cuts, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday.

At an unusual financial briefing in the Palace boiler room, to illustrate economies totalling pounds 200,000 a year in heating and electricity costs, officials said the Royals last year spent pounds 35 million of Government grants, representing a 9 per cent saving on 1999-2000.

The Queen's treasurer, Sir Michael Peat, said savings to the taxpayer had amounted to pounds 48 million in the nine years from 1991 to ...

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