Non-official

Non-official

Non-official Expenditure - £2.217 million

In addition to paying for official duties, charitable activities and The Prince’s income tax liability, the income from the Duchy of Cornwall is used to meet non-official expenditure for The Prince of Wales and his family.

Non-official expenditure includes the salary cost of 12.5 full-time equivalent staff, including personal secretaries and accounts and personnel staff, chefs, valets, chauffeurs and staff for the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince William and Prince Harry.

In addition there are 23 full-time equivalent estate, farm, garden and stable staff.  Non-official expenditure also includes, as the largest single item, the appropriate share of the cost of Highgrove House and Birkhall, and of maintaining the estate and garden at Highgrove.  The garden is a valuable charitable asset visited every year, free of charge, by more than 20,000 people.

The results of Home Farm, The Prince’s organic farm on the Highgrove Estate, are included under this heading. Home Farm is a working farm established by The Prince of Wales in part to demonstrate the commercial and environmental benefits of organic farming. It is visited by approximately 2,000 people annually to learn about organic farming.