The monarch currently receives £11.9 million a year from the public purse to maintain and repair her homes which include Windsor Castle and St James's Palace.
But because of a pay freeze she can only carry out emergency repairs to the buildings and says she will need more money to stop the royal households from falling into disrepair.
The current budget means that while a £3.5 million repair to the crumbling facade of Buckingham Palace had gone ahead, other key projects had been forced to be put on hold.
These included replacing lead and slate roofs, refurbishing state rooms and overhauling antiquated heating systems.
Officials at Buckingham Palace claimed that as well as the postponing projects, the Queen had tried to balance the books with increased revenues from her estate.
"However, these initiatives alone are unlikely to be successful in averting the growth in backlog in future years and further funding will be required in due course," it concluded.
The claims were outlined in the Queen's Official Expenditure accounts for the year to April.
They show that the cost of supporting the monarchy fell by £1.8 million in the last financial year to £32.1 million, equivalent to a saving of three pence per person.
Thanks to a slight reduction in staff – from 111 to 106 – and a pay freeze, the Civil List spending fell from 14.2 million to £13.7 million throughout the year.
Property management dropped from £15.4 million to £11.9 million and maintaining website and press relations remained about the same at £500,000.
However Royal travel costs rose from £3.9 million to £6 million in 2010/11.
This was mainly due to a one-off repayment of £1.5 million from the trading in of the Royal helicopter keeping costs down last year but was also due to an increase in fees for using RAF aero planes.
This resulted in the royal household chartering more private planes increasing travel fees by £600,000.
The report listed journeys costing £10,000 or more by air or rail.
These included £356,253 for the charter flight costs of the state visit of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to the United Arab Emirates and Oman in November.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall's trip to India as part of an official Foreign Office visit in October cost £298,089 in charter flights.
The Duke of York's charter flight travel in April last year as part of an official UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and Foreign Office visit to Italy and central Asia cost £121,810.
Sir Alan Reid, keeper of the privy purse, said the fall in spending had been achieved through increased income generation, deferral of property maintenance and a pay freeze for staff which will continue this year.
But he warned that it would be "very difficult" for expenditure to reduce "very much further" without having an effect on the royal household's work to support the Queen and the long-term health of the estate.
"The Queen is very keen that the royal household should continue to reduce its expenditure in line with public expenditure reductions," he said.
"The decrease in expenditure is due mainly to increased income generation, the deferral of property maintenance expenditure and the implementation of a pay freeze.
"This pay freeze will continue on to this year."
He added: "Over the past five years, the Queen's official expenditure has reduced by 19 per cent in real terms and while the royal household will continue to identify efficiencies, it will be very difficult for overall expenditure to reduce very much further without impacting on the royal household's activities in support of the Queen and the long-term health of the estate."
The accounts do not include the cost of providing security for the Royal family.
Queen needs more money to maintain Royal homes
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