Editing Civil list (section)

=== History===
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| type                  = Act
| short_title           = [[Civil List Act 1697]]
| parliament            = Parliament of England
| long_title            = An Act for granting to His Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage towards raiseing the Yearly Summ of Seven hundred thousand Pounds for the Service of His Majesties. Household & other Uses therein mencioned during His Majesties Life.
| year                  = 1697
| citation              = [[9 Will. 3]]. c. 23<br/>(Ruffhead: 9 & 10 Will. 3. c. 23)
| territorial_extent    = [[England and Wales]]
| royal_assent          = 5 July 1698
| repealing_legislation = [[Customs Law Repeal Act 1825]]
| status                = Repealed
| original_text         = https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol7/pp382-385
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Act 1714}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of Great Britain
| long_title            = An Act for the better support of his Majesty's houshold and of the honour and dignity of the crown of Great Britain.
| year                  = 1714
| citation              = [[1 Geo. 1. St. 1]]. c. 1
| royal_assent          = 21 August 1714
| repeal_date           = 15 July 1867
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1867]]
| status                = Repealed
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = [[Civil List Act 1727]]
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of Great Britain
| long_title            = An Act for the better Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of Great Britain.
| year                  = 1727
| citation              = [[1 Geo. 2. St. 1]]. c. 1
| royal_assent          = 17 July 1727
| repeal_date           = 15 July 1867
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1867]]
| status                = Repealed
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = [[Civil List Act 1760]]
| parliament            = Parliament of Great Britain
| long_title            = An Act for the Support of his Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of Great Britain.
| year                  = 1760
| citation              = [[1 Geo. 3]]. c. 1
| territorial_extent    = [[England and Wales]]; [[Scotland]]
| royal_assent          = 9 December 1760
| repeal_date           = 15 July 1867
| status                = Repealed
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1867]]
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Act 1776}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of Great Britain
| long_title            = An act for the better support of his Majesty's household, and of the honour and dignity of the crown of Great Britain.
| year                  = 1776
| citation              = [[17 Geo. 3]]. c. 21
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1871]]
| royal_assent          = 7 May 1777
| repeal_date           = 21 August 1871
| status                = Repealed
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Act 1785}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of Great Britain
| long_title            = An Act to authorize the Lord Steward of the Household, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Master of the Robes, and the Lords of the Treasury, respectively, to pay Bounties granted by His Majesty to Persons in low and indigent Circumstances.
| year                  = 1785
| citation              = [[25 Geo. 3]]. c. 61
| royal_assent          = 20 July 1785
| repeal_date           =21 August 1871
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1871]]
| status                = Repealed
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Act 1804}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An act for the better Support of his Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom; and for preventing Accumulation of Arrears in the Payments out of the Civil List Revenues.
| year                  = 1804
| citation              = [[44 Geo. 3]]. c. 80
| royal_assent          = 20 July 1804
| repeal_date           = 6 August 1872
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1872]]
| status                = Repealed
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List (Ireland) Act 1805}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An act to amend an act made in the parliament of Ireland, for the support of the honour and dignity of his Majesty's crown in Ireland; and for granting to his Majesty a civil list establishment under certain provisions and regulations.
| year                  = 1805
| citation              = [[45 Geo. 3]]. c. 76
| royal_assent          = 2 July 1805
| repeal_date           = 6 August 1872
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1872]]
| status                = Repealed
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Audit Act 1816}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act for the better Regulation of the Civil List.
| year                  = 1816
| citation              = [[56 Geo. 3]]. c. 46
| royal_assent          = 20 June 1816
| amendments            = {{ubli|[[Statute Law Revision Act 1873]]|[[Statute Law Revision Act 1888]]}}
| repealing_legislation = [[Sovereign Grant Act 2011]]
| status                = Repealed
| original_text         = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3/56/46/contents/enacted
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Act 1820}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act for the Support of His Majesty's Household and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
| year                  = 1820
| citation              = [[1 Geo. 4]]. c. 1
| royal_assent          = 6 June 1820
| repeal_date           = 5 August 1873
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1873]]
| status                = Repealed
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Act 1831}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An act for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
| year                  = 1831
| citation              = [[1 Will. 4]]. c. 25
| royal_assent          = 22 April 1831
| repeal_date           = 18 July 1874
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1874]]
| status                = Repealed
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = [[Civil List Act 1837]]
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act for the Support of Her Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
| year                  = 1837
| citation              = 1 & 2 Vict. c. 2
| royal_assent          = 23 December 1837
| amendments            = [[Sovereign Grant Act 2011]]
| status                = amended
| use_new_UK-LEG        = yes
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Act 1901}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act to make provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, and for the payment of certain allowances and pensions.
| year                  = 1901
| citation              = [[1 Edw. 7]]. c. 4
| royal_assent          = 2 July 1901
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1963]]
| status                = repealed
| original_text         = https://archive.org/details/lrpgsv391901/page/n25/mode/1up?view=theater
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Act 1910}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act to make provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, and for the payment of certain allowances and pensions.
| year                  = 1910
| citation              = [[10 Edw. 7. & 1 Geo. 5]]. c. 28
| royal_assent          = 3 August 1910
| commencement          = 6 May 1910
| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977]]
| status                = repealed
| original_text         = {{GBurl|J0lvBg3dAHwC|page=198}}
}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
| collapsed             = yes
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Civil List Act 1937}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act to make provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, and for the payment of certain allowances and pensions; to enable His Majesty to assent to arrangements on behalf of any son of His Majesty being Duke of Cornwall for the payment of certain sums out of the revenues of the Duchy during the minority of the said Duke; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
| year                  = 1937
| citation              = [[1 Edw. 8. & 1 Geo. 6]]. c. 32
| royal_assent          = 10 June 1937
| repealing_legislation = [[Sovereign Grant Act 2011]]
| status                = repealed
| original_text         = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/32/contents/enacted
| use_new_UK-LEG        = no
}}
{{See also|Civil List Act 1697|Civil List Act 1727|Civil List Act 1760|Civil List Act 1837}}

Following the [[Glorious Revolution]] of 1688, the expenses relating to the support of the monarch were largely separated from the ordinary expenses of the state managed by the [[Exchequer]]. 

[[Civil List Act 1697|In 1697]], Parliament under [[William III of England|William III]] fixed [[the Crown]]'s peacetime revenue at £1,200,000 per year; of this about £700,000 was appropriated towards the Civil List.<ref>{{Cite web |title=William III, 1697-8: An Act for granting to His Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage towards raiseing the Yearly Su[m]m of Seven hundred thousand Pounds... [Chapter XXIII. Rot. Parl. 9 Gul. III. p. 4. n. 5.] {{!}} British History Online |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol7/pp382-385 |access-date=2016-06-24 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Convention and Bill of Rights |url=http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/revolution/overview/billofrights/ |access-date=2 November 2014 |publisher=UK Parliament}}</ref> The sovereigns were expected to use this to defray some of the costs of running the civil government (such as the Civil Service, judges' and ambassadors' salaries) and the payment of pensions, as well as the expenses of the Royal Household and the sovereign's personal expenses. It was from this that the term "Civil List" arose, to distinguish it from the statement of military and naval expenses which were funded through special taxation.

The 1760 accession of [[George III]] marked a significant change in royal finances. As his predecessor, George II, had failed to meet all of the specific costs of the civil government in accordance with the previous arrangement, it was decided by the [[Civil List Act 1760]] that George III would surrender the hereditary revenues from the [[Crown Estate]] to Parliament for the duration of his reign, and in return Parliament would assume responsibility for most of the costs of the civil government. Parliament would continue to pay the Civil List, which would defray the expenses of the [[Royal Household]] and some of the costs of the civil government. George III, however, retained the income from the [[Duchy of Lancaster]].

On the 1830 accession of [[William IV of the United Kingdom|William IV]], the sum voted for the Civil List was restricted to the expenses of the Royal Household, removing any residual responsibilities associated with the cost of the civil government.  This finally removed any links between the sovereign and the cost of the civil government. On the accession of [[Queen Victoria]], the [[Civil List Act 1837]]—which reiterated the principles of the civil list system and specified all prior Acts as in force—was passed. Upon the accession of subsequent monarchs down to [[Queen Elizabeth II]], this constitutional arrangement was confirmed, but the historical term "Civil List" remained even though the grant had nothing to do with the expenses of the civil government.

In 1931, [[George V]] decided to eschew the £50,000 due to him from the Civil List as a result of the [[Great Depression in the United Kingdom|Great Depression]]. As [[Keeper of the Privy Purse]], [[Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby|Sir Frederick Ponsonby]] wrote to Prime Minister [[Ramsay MacDonald]] to say that George had felt it was possible to reject the grant by "exercise of the most rigid economy" and that [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] and other royal family members were "desirous that reductions in these grants should be made during this time of national crisis".<ref>{{Cite news |title=Silence of the readers |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=22 August 1992 |page=10}}</ref>