Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in each year from 1999 to 2024, what directions have been given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or the relevant Secretary of State, to the Crown Estate Commissioners under section 1 of the Crown Estate Act 1961.

Section 1 of the Crown Estate Act 1961 provides that the Chancellor of the Exchequer may direct the Commissioners as to the discharge of their functions under the Act, but in doing so must have regard to the general statutory duties of the Commissioners.

Neither the Treasury nor The Crown Estate have any known record of the power of direction in section 1 of the Crown Estate Act 1961 being used since the 1961 Act came into force.