HC Deb 07 July 1997 vol 297 c330W
Mr. Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much the EU Commission is spending to promote the euro and emu(a) in Europe and (b) in the United Kingdom. [6851]

Mr. Doug Henderson

In the 1997 EC Budget a total of 45 million ecu is provided in budget lines B3–306 and B0–40 for information activities in connection with specific policies, including the single currency. The Commission has provisionally allocated 23 million ecu of this money to a campaign to publicise the euro. None of this money will be present in the UK as the euro information campaign is not being prsued here.