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		</div><p>Scotland could cut its contribution to the British monarchy by more than £1 million if plans for further devolution get the go-ahead, it has been claimed.</p>
<p>The Royal Family could expect an annual cut of between £1 million and £1.5 million if profits from the Crown Estate in Scotland are kept by the Scottish Parliament rather than the UK Parliament in a year&#8217;s time, a royal source said.</p>
<p>The Crown Estate is a considerable UK property holder, 15% of the profits from which go to the royal household. That could now change.</p>
<p>A royal aide said negotiations were continuing between Westminster and Holyrood over financing, and said Scotland would continue to make contributions to the British monarchy, even if the profits from crown assets were not returned south of the border.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;I think the proposal, although it&#8217;s not definite yet, is for the transfer of assets from April 1 2016. So the Crown Estate assets under management, in UK terms, would drop at that point.&#8221;</p>
<p>The details emerged as royal accounts released showed the cost of travel increased by almost £1 million during 2014/15 compared with the previous year but overall royal household expenditure remained the same.</p>
<figure id="attachment_73756" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-73756" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/image150.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/image150.jpg" alt="Nicola Sturgeon" width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-73756" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-73756" class="wp-caption-text">Nicola Sturgeon</figcaption></figure>
<p>A Scottish Government spokesman said Scotland would continue to contribute to the Sovereign Grant &#8211; the royal family&#8217;s allowance &#8211; through general taxation.</p>
<p>The royal accounts, published this week, showed that the largest travel cost was for an eight-day tour of Mexico and Colombia involving the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, which came to £446,159.</p>
<p>Major projects included stripping asbestos from the basement floor ducts in the east wing of Buckingham Palace, at a cost of £300,000, as well as the construction of an aircraft hangar for the Queen&#8217;s helicopter at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, costing £1.2 million.</p>
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