thirty one million pounds from the sovereign grants chairwoman of the public accounts committee margaret hodge said more can be done to increase revenue for the royal household. you can look at raising more income they've done a bit of work in that but if you just look at buckingham palace it has about half a million businesses a year now that the tower of london has over two million visitors a year and of course buckingham palace is in student politics so the things are different but nevertheless the queen is not that all of the time and i think more income could be generated if smarter use was made of the if they did but it is the palace when the queen is not in residence. the crown estate is worth more than seven point three eight billion pounds and includes properties across the u.k. let's just hope that royal baby george grows up to be a bit more savvy when it comes to money matters than the rest of his family is today. well there you have it as always we'll be tracking this story and keeping you posted on all the latest. with the money in her household budget or not the british economy a

earlier i spoke to margaret hodge who leads the account committee. they were not planning how to ensure that the necessary repairs were made to ensure that it was kept in good condition. some extra money, and they say they have done that in 2012-2013, to the tune of around $5 million, but that's still not if you have from what i understand, you want the doors of bucking ham palace to be open a little bit more often? >> well, we welcome the progress that they have made there. but we think there's further to go. if you look at the entire of london, they have over 2 million visitor as year. and it's quite a commercial undertaking. they have half a million, and of course the two palaces are different, in that the queen lives in bucking ham palace for half of the year, so you can't expect the same, i think it is a more commercial approach to ensuring that we really need hard times when everybody is trying to cut the deficit. so if we can ensure that we really eke out the best value from bucking ham palace, i think we can go further, and i think what we fe