The spanish royal house has published the breakdown of its expenses in 2023. As every year, the institution has published the data sent to the General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE), which details what each euro of the funds has been spent on. 8.4 million coming from the General State Budgets that the Crown received in the last year.
This breakdown also allows you to know how much the events organized by Casa Real cost, how much money is allocated to the awarding of contracts or the salaries of staff, for example. Thus, the cost of the lunch for Leonor’s birthday and other receptions at the Royal Palace presided over by Felipe VI and Letizia.
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One of the highest expenses was the catering for the reception held after the National Day parade on October 12. The catering for that event amounted to 68,805 euros, something that is not surprising considering that there were more than 2,500 guests.
For its part, the lunch offered by the kings in the Royal Palace after the imposition of the Collar of the Order of Charles III on Princess Leonor on her 18th birthday had a cost of 25,300 euros, while the lunch held on the 4th December on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Cervantes Institute It cost 11,865 euros.
Other notable events were the reception after the Military Easter on January 6, which cost 10,725 euros; or the one held to congratulate the Zarzuela staff on Christmas, which subtracted 18,562 euros from the coffers of the Royal House.
The largest budget item was allocated to personal expenses, with 4.7 million euros, which represented 56.2 percent of the total. This concept included the annual remuneration received by Felipe VI (269,296 euros), Queen Letizia (148,105 euros) and Queen Sofía (121,186 euros), already detailed by the King’s House in February of last year.
Regarding the number of contracts awarded, the Royal House signed 18 through the general procedure and 13 minor contracts. The largest contract was 688,130.3 euros for the acquisition and updating of computer products.
Since 2021, the Head of State receives the same amount from the General State Budgets, which amounts to 8.43 million euros. In the current year, that figure is maintained due to the extension of public accounts.
The 2023 budget added a credit supplement of 579,000 euros financed from the budget surplus fund. At the end of the year, the King’s House made payments of 7.72 million euros, so it did not complete the total available budget, leaving 710,214 euros unspent.
With information from EFE
