Queen's finances to be investigated by powerful Westminster committee

[Chippiewill]

The Public Accounts Committee is expected to launch an investigation into whether the monarch and the Royal Family provide value for money to the taxpayer.
The inquiry, which will look at every aspect of the Queen’s expenditure including the cost of transport, is likely to cause concern in Buckingham Palace because of the PAC’s reputation for grilling civil servants if it deems they have misused public funds.
The Queen’s closest aides can expect a particularly rough ride by MPs about whether the Royal Family is providing value for taxpayers’ money.
The amount of public funds going to the Royal Family soared last year, despite Government cuts.
The investigation follows a change in the law which, for the first time, gives MPs oversight of royal finances.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...committee.html

So the Monarch who chooses to give the government all of the profits from the crown estate for a salary (Which Mr Osborne recently changed to a 16% refund) is now being investigated over millions which weren't the government's to begin with. In the mean time the banks, corrupt to kingdom come, who have demanded various bailouts in recent years who are almost certaining laundering cash and evading taxes.. nil, nada.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Meanwhile we're sending billions to the EU, billions to corrupt third world dictators, hundreds of billions on a disgraceful national health service, billions on a ridiculous new high speed rail system that we don't need, billions on debt servicing, billions (as you say) on propping up bankrupt banks, billions on quangos, billions in fraudster PFI schemes.......... the list is endless yet state spending continues to rise out of control.

Personally i'd favour returning all the Crown Estate profits to the Royal Family so its self funding, as to avoid this demonisation of them.

All that being said, with the debt we're in - all spending ought to be reviewed.

[GommeInc]

An investigation isn't a bad thing, but the Royal finances must surely be at the bottom of the list - given the aforementioned problems that blight our economy yet go freely.