Queen Elizabeth’s funeral worth the UK authorities £162million, the treasury revealed. The state funeral was held on September 19, 2022, following a interval of nationwide mourning all through which a complete lot of 1000’s visited Westminster Abbey the place the monarch was lying in state. The Queen died aged 96 at Balmoral Fortress after 70 years on the throne.
The biggest costs had been lined by the Residence Office who paid £74million within the route of the event, the treasury well-known. The Division of Custom, Media and Sport spent £57million, it added. The Scottish authorities spent £18.756 million on the Queen’s lying in rest.
World leaders descended on London to pay their respects as part of the memorial as a whole lot of hundreds of people tuned in worldwide to see the funeral.
Chief secretary to the treasury John Glen talked about that the state funeral was a “second of large nationwide significance”.
“All through this period, many a complete lot of 1000’s of people acquired right here in particular person to pay their respects, on the lying at rest in Edinburgh, the lying-in-state in Westminster, along with in London and Windsor for the state funeral on 19 September. Many further people moreover acquired right here out to assist his majesty the king and completely different members of the royal family as they travelled throughout the UK all through this time,” he talked about.
“The federal authorities’s priorities had been that these events ran simply and with the acceptable diploma of dignity, whereas at all times guaranteeing the safety and security of most of the people. As departments finalise their accounts ahead of publication throughout the coming months, the federal authorities is now able to publish an estimate of the costs associated to produce of these events by the precept authorities departments and devolved administrations involved,” he added.
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