§ Mr. Spearingasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will show in the Official Report the breakdown of the United Kingdom's contributions to the EEC budget for the financial year 1974–75, including sums contributing to the emergency sugar scheme.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettThe United Kingdom contributes to the Community budget as a whole and it would not be appropriate to attempt to allocate the total United Kingdom contribution of £197 million—provisional outturn—in the United Kingdom financial year 1974–75 over the various headings of the budget.
283WOn the basis of very approximate estimates, the expenditure from the 1974 Community budget on the special import subsidy scheme for sugar is estimated at £22 million, of which the United Kingdom received approximately £19 million. Figures for expenditure on the scheme from the 1975 Community budget in the first quarter of 1975 are not available, but tenders for the Community as a whole during this period are estimated to be £38 million. The United Kingdom share of this was approximately £19 million, nearly all of which was received in the first quarter of 1975.