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What could billionaires do with their wealth?

Action	Cost to do	Could be done by
End the NHS crisis by increasing spending to the EU average for 10 years	£398bn	34 of the richest UK households
Reach net zero by 2050	£321bn	22 of the richest UK households
Pay off all student debt	£182bn	8 of the richest UK households
Build HS2 in full	£107bn	4 of the richest UK households
Pay off tax evasion	£90bn	3 of the richest UK households
Nationalise water, energy and Royal Mail	£59bn	3 of the richest UK households
Reverse school cuts since 2010 for 10 years	£47bn	2 of the richest UK households

The UK’s billionaires in 2024 and what that money could buy

This data is based on analysis of the Sunday Times Rich List 2024, with non-essential data removed and exact figures obscured. To see a full copy of the Rich List, please purchase a subscription to The Times on their website.

Rank	Name	Wealth	Could Buy
1	Gopi Hinduja and family	£37bn	Could nationalise energy companies for £34.4bn, which could have saved each household over £1800 in 2022. There’s enough left over to power over 1m UK homes with solar energy.
2	Sir Leonard Blavatnik	£29bn	Could end homelessness, ending all rough sleeping, temporary accommodation, and squatting for £23bn, then re-open Sure Start centres and expand free childcare for £5.6bn
3	David and Simon Reuben and family	£25bn	Could increase Universal Credit to make sure that it covers the essentials for life for £22bn
4	Sir Jim Ratcliffe	£24bn	Could provide free school meals for all pupils for £23.5bn, dramatically cutting poverty and saving £58.2bn in the long run
5	Sir James Dyson and family	£21bn	Could restore local government funding to 2010 levels for £18.5bn, re-opening libraries, childrens’ centres, community halls and more
6	Barnaby and Merlin Swire and family	£17bn	Could end the cladding scandal, removing flammable cladding from the flats of half a million people
7	Idan Ofer	£15bn	Insulate 19 million homes in a decade, saving each household hundreds in heating bills
8	Lakshmi Mittal and family	£15bn	Could fix our collapsing schools for £13.5bn, with over a billion left over to also rebuild Notre Dame
9	Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family	£14bn	Could introduce free personal care for over 65s for £13.3bn
10	John Fredriksen and family	£13bn	Could build 3.1 million council homes, helping end the housing crisis and paying for itself over 39 years, for £12.6bn
11	Kirsten and Jorn Rausing	£13bn	Save and decarbonise the UK steel industry for £12bn, with over £600m left over
12	Alex Gerko	£12bn	Could fund the NHS maintenance backlog for £10.2bn and restore the 0.7% aid target for £1.3bn, with change to spare
13	Michael Platt	£12bn	Could renationalise Royal Mail for £4.6bn, then move right onto fixing sewage dumping for £4.9bn and still have over £2bn left over
14	Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho	£12bn	Could increase nurses pay by 15% for £9.4bn
15	The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family	£10bn	Abolish university tuition fees with £1bn left over
16	Marit, Lisbet, Sigrid and Hans Rausing	£9bn	Combining their resources, these two households could renationalise the water companies and save every household £139 a year for £18.1bn and still have hundreds of millions left each
17	Carrie and François Perrodo and family	£9bn
18	Nicky Oppenheimer and family	£8bn	Could spend £4.53bn on planting 2 billion trees, creating new national parks, restoring habitats and absorbing 47m of carbon each year, then build two new reservoirs and a drought reduction plan for £3.3bn
19	Lord Bamford and family	£8bn	Could cover the NHS cash crisis, removing the debt created by inflation and underfunding
20	Denise, John and Peter Coates	£7bn	Could build an underground railway system in Bristol with four lines, with £400m left to splash on fancy moquettes
21	Andy Currie	£7bn	Pooling their resources, these billionaires could fund a high speed rail network between Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and Hull, with over £3bn left between them
22	John Reece	£7bn
23	Anil Agarwal	£7bn
24	Anders Holch Povlsen	£7bn
25	Tom Morris and family	£7bn	Could fund free NHS dentistry, prescriptions, and parking for four years
26	Stephen Rubin and family	£7bn	Get these four in a room together, and their wealth could fund the rolling out of full fibre broadband across the entire UK for £25.28bn, with plenty left after
27	Igor and Dmitry Bukhman	£6bn
28	Ian and Richard Livingstone	£6bn
29	Moshe Kantor	£6bn
30	Sri Prakash Lohia	£6bn	Build a mass transit system across Leeds and West Yorkshire, starting with £2bn for the first two lines and doubling the entire national devolved transport fund for £4.2bn
31	François-Henri Pinault and Salma Hayek	£6bn	Could scrap the two-child limit on benefits, which has led to huge increases in child poverty, for 3 years for £5.4bn
32	Sir Chris Hohn	£6bn	Could pay the salaries of 168,360 nurses for a full year
33	Daniel Kretinsky	£6bn	Could run the whole NHS across England out of his pocket for 14.4 days
34	Jaime Gilinski Bacal	£6bn	Could pay the salary of 56,580 consultants for a full year
35	Earl Cadogan and family	£6bn	Could cover 98 days of social care spending by councils across the entire country
36	Glenn Gordon and family	£6bn	Could pay the salary of 144,076 teachers for a whole year
37	Hilton Schlosberg	£6bn	Could cover the cost of 131m GP appointments
38	Joe Lewis	£5bn	Could pay 146446 nurses for a year
39	Mohsin and Zuber Issa	£5bn	Could pay 138000 nurses for a year
40	Sir Dennis and Lady Gillings	£5bn	Could pay 129720 nurses for a year
41	Mark Scheinberg	£5bn	Could pay 129030 nurses for a year
42	Sir Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman	£5bn	Could pay 127043 nurses for a year
43	Sir Henry Keswick and family	£5bn	Could pay 124200 nurses for a year
44	Guillaume Pousaz	£4bn	Could pay 122240 nurses for a year
45	Nik Storonsky	£4bn	Could pay 120888 nurses for a year
46	Johan Eliasch	£4bn	Could pay 110400 nurses for a year
46	Teddy Sagi	£4bn	Could pay 110400 nurses for a year
48	Leonie Schroder and family	£4bn	Could pay 108772 nurses for a year
49	Mike Ashley	£4bn	Could pay 104852 nurses for a year
50	Eddie and Sol Zakay	£4bn	Could pay 99360 nurses for a year
50	Laurence and FranCois Graff	£4bn	Could pay 99360 nurses for a year
52	Baroness Howard de Walden and family	£3bn	Could pay 96076 nurses for a year
53	Mark Pears and family	£3bn	Could pay 94364 nurses for a year
54	John Bloor	£3bn	Could pay 93730 nurses for a year
55	Alan Parker and family	£3bn	Could pay 87023 nurses for a year
56	Benzion Freshwater and family	£3bn	Could pay 85505 nurses for a year
57	Yakir Gabay	£3bn	Could pay 85422 nurses for a year
58	Navin and Varsha Engineer	£3bn	Could pay 82800 nurses for a year
58	Douw Steyn and family	£3bn	Could pay 82800 nurses for a year
60	Alki David and the Leventis family	£3bn	Could pay 80592 nurses for a year
61	Sammy Tak Lee and family	£3bn	Could pay 78853 nurses for a year
62	The Murray family	£3bn	Could pay 77280 nurses for a year
63	Clive Calder	£3bn	Could pay 75900 nurses for a year
64	Bernard Lewis and family	£3bn	Could pay 74824 nurses for a year
65	Simon, Bobby and Robin Arora	£3bn	Could pay 74023 nurses for a year
66	Inna Gudavadze	£3bn	Could pay 73140 nurses for a year
67	Lord Paul and family	£3bn	Could pay 71760 nurses for a year
68	Sir Anwar Pervez and family	£3bn	Could pay 71732 nurses for a year
69	Geoffrey Warren	£3bn	Could pay 70435 nurses for a year
70	John Christodoulou	£3bn	Could pay 69000 nurses for a year
70	Chris and Sarah Dawson	£3bn	Could pay 69000 nurses for a year
70	Alan Howard	£3bn	Could pay 69000 nurses for a year
70	Chris Rokos	£3bn	Could pay 69000 nurses for a year
74	Sir Richard Branson and family	£2bn	Could pay 66240 nurses for a year
74	The Lazari family	£2bn	Could pay 66240 nurses for a year
76	Fred and Peter Done	£2bn	Could pay 65688 nurses for a year
77	Sunder Genomal and family	£2bn	Could pay 61106 nurses for a year
78	Alejandro Santo Domingo and Lady Charlotte Wellesley	£2bn	Could pay 60720 nurses for a year
79	Hamdi Akin Ipek and family	£2bn	Could pay 60306 nurses for a year
80	Jean-François Decaux and family	£2bn	Could pay 59285 nurses for a year
81	Georg and Emily von Opel	£2bn	Could pay 57491 nurses for a year
82	Henri Beaufour	£2bn	Could pay 56387 nurses for a year
83	Jasminder Singh and family	£2bn	Could pay 55228 nurses for a year
84	John Gore	£2bn	Could pay 57960 nurses for a year
85	Lord Hintze	£2bn	Could pay 55200 nurses for a year
86	Wafic Said	£2bn	Could pay 54731 nurses for a year
87	Henry Moser and family	£2bn	Could pay 52937 nurses for a year
88	Sir Ian Wood and family	£2bn	Could pay 52744 nurses for a year
89	Viscount Portman and family	£2bn	Could pay 52440 nurses for a year
90	Simon Nixon	£2bn	Could pay 51888 nurses for a year
91	Sir Will Adderley and family	£2bn	Could pay 51805 nurses for a year
92	Bernie Ecclestone and family	£2bn	Could pay 50894 nurses for a year
93	Peter Hargreaves	£2bn	Could pay 50867 nurses for a year
94	Jonas and Mathias Kamprad	£2bn	Could pay 50591 nurses for a year
95	Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and family	£2bn	Could pay 49349 nurses for a year
96	John Whittaker and family	£2bn	Could pay 48990 nurses for a year
97	Jim and Sally Thompson	£2bn	Could pay 48272 nurses for a year
98	Peter Harris and family	£2bn	Could pay 48024 nurses for a year
99	Kristo Kaarmann	£2bn	Could pay 47058 nurses for a year
100	James and John Martin and family	£2bn	Could pay 46092 nurses for a year
101	Thor Bjorgolfsson	£2bn	Could pay 45982 nurses for a year
102	Mahdi Al-Tajir	£2bn	Could pay 45292 nurses for a year
103	Sanjeev and Arani Soosaipillai	£2bn	Could pay 44326 nurses for a year
104	Sir Peter, James and Steve Rigby	£2bn	Could pay 43994 nurses for a year
105	Douglas and Dame Mary Perkins and family	£2bn	Could pay 43801 nurses for a year
106	Lady Philomena Clark and family	£2bn	Could pay 43636 nurses for a year
107	Adam Fleming and family	£2bn	Could pay 43028 nurses for a year
108	Surinder Arora and family	£2bn	Could pay 42946 nurses for a year
109	John Caudwell	£2bn	Could pay 42421 nurses for a year
110	Strive Masiyiwa	£2bn	Could pay 41566 nurses for a year
111	Malcolm Healey and family	£2bn	Could pay 41428 nurses for a year
112	Lord Ashcroft and family	£2bn	Could pay 41400 nurses for a year
112	The Fayed family	£2bn	Could pay 41400 nurses for a year
112	Farhad Moshiri	£2bn	Could pay 41400 nurses for a year
115	Poju and Anita Zabludowicz	£1bn	Could pay 41262 nurses for a year
116	Sandy and James Easdale	£1bn	Could pay 40020 nurses for a year
116	Niklas Zennstrom	£1bn	Could pay 40020 nurses for a year
118	Robert Miller and Princess Marie-Chantal and family	£1bn	Could pay 39440 nurses for a year
118	Stefan Olsson	£1bn	Could pay 39440 nurses for a year
120	Jon Hunt	£1bn	Could pay 39302 nurses for a year
121	Andrey Andreev	£1bn	Could pay 38640 nurses for a year
121	Tony Langley	£1bn	Could pay 38640 nurses for a year
121	Nicholas Roditi and family	£1bn	Could pay 38640 nurses for a year
124	The Thomson family	£1bn	Could pay 37729 nurses for a year
125	Mike Danson	£1bn	Could pay 37232 nurses for a year
126	Sir Terry Matthews	£1bn	Could pay 36984 nurses for a year
127	Lord Choudrey and family	£1bn	Could pay 36874 nurses for a year
128	Sunil Vaswani and family	£1bn	Could pay 36791 nurses for a year
129	Richard Desmond	£1bn	Could pay 36184 nurses for a year
130	Yan Huo	£1bn	Could pay 35880 nurses for a year
131	Paul Coulson and family	£1bn	Could pay 35825 nurses for a year
132	Sir Tony Gallagher	£1bn	Could pay 35742 nurses for a year
133	Peter Jones and family	£1bn	Could pay 35494 nurses for a year
134	Raj, Tony and Harpal Matharu and family	£1bn	Could pay 34886 nurses for a year
135	Sir David McMurtry	£1bn	Could pay 34555 nurses for a year
136	Christoph Henkel and family	£1bn	Could pay 34500 nurses for a year
136	Caspar MacDonald-Hall and family	£1bn	Could pay 34500 nurses for a year
136	Sir Cameron Mackintosh	£1bn	Could pay 34500 nurses for a year
139	Viscount Rothermere and family	£1bn	Could pay 33672 nurses for a year
140	Alex Beard	£1bn	Could pay 33534 nurses for a year
141	Michael Flacks	£1bn	Could pay 33479 nurses for a year
142	Mark Coombs	£1bn	Could pay 33424 nurses for a year
143	Lord Grantchester and the moores family	£1bn	Could pay 33120 nurses for a year
143	Elisabeth Murdoch	£1bn	Could pay 33120 nurses for a year
145	Charles Cayzer and family	£1bn	Could pay 33037 nurses for a year
146	Lord Spencer	£1bn	Could pay 32954 nurses for a year
147	Nadhmi Auchi	£1bn	Could pay 32623 nurses for a year
148	Henning Conle and family	£1bn	Could pay 32568 nurses for a year
148	The Smedvig family	£1bn	Could pay 32568 nurses for a year
150	Steve Lansdown	£1bn	Could pay 32237 nurses for a year
150	David Sullivan and family	£1bn	Could pay 32237 nurses for a year
152	Sir Gerald Ronson and family	£1bn	Could pay 31602 nurses for a year
153	Lord Kirkham and family	£1bn	Could pay 31464 nurses for a year
154	John Armitage	£1bn	Could pay 30912 nurses for a year
155	Peter Kelly	£1bn	Could pay 30553 nurses for a year
156	The Shepherd family	£1bn	Could pay 30470 nurses for a year
157	Howard Shore	£1bn	Could pay 30360 nurses for a year
157	Eugene Shvidler	£1bn	Could pay 30360 nurses for a year
159	Lord Sugar	£1bn	Could pay 29863 nurses for a year
160	Sir Mo Ibrahim	£1bn	Could pay 28456 nurses for a year
161	Suneil Setiya	£1bn	Could pay 28014 nurses for a year
161	Greg Skinner	£1bn	Could pay 28014 nurses for a year
163	Ursula Bechtolsheimer-Kipp and family	£1bn	Could pay 27793 nurses for a year
164	Vladimir Makhlai	£1bn	Could pay 27600 nurses for a year
165	Sir Paul and Nancy McCartney	£1bn	Could pay 27600 nurses for a year

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