# Sovereign Grant Act 2026, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

An Act to specify the amount of the Sovereign Grant for the financial year 2027-28 and the percentage of the income account net surplus of the Crown Estate to be used by the Royal Trustees to determine the amount of the Sovereign Grant in subsequent financial years; to confer a duty and a power on the Treasury to specify the amount of the Sovereign Grant in subsequent financial years in certain circumstances; and for connected purposes.
[2nd November 2026]
Most Gracious Sovereign,
Whereas Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify to Your faithful Commons in Parliament assembled that Your Majesty is desirous that consideration should be given by Your faithful Commons to the provision made by Parliament for the financial support of Your Majesty and other members of the Royal Household, and to the arrangements to be made for the continuation of such support in the reigns of Your successors.
And Whereas Your Majesty has further been graciously pleased to signify that Your Majesty is desirous that the hereditary revenues of the Crown for any period for which support is provided to any of Your successors should be at the disposal of Your faithful Commons.
Now, therefore, we, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, have freely and voluntarily resolved to make such provision as hereinafter appears for the purposes aforesaid, and we do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/28/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sovereign-grant-act-2026/introduction
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