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Crown Estate: Wales

Commons · Question 3769 · Tabled 2 Sep 2024 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 5 Sep 2024

Question

Asked by Ben Lake

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the Crown Estate publishing the (a) asset value and (b) net revenue profit of the Crown Estate in Wales within its annual accounts.

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 5 Sep 2024

To achieve efficiency in its operations, the Crown Estate runs many of its functions at a whole enterprise level. As a result, separate financial statements for Wales would not reflect the fact that expenditure is incurred for the benefit of the whole por...