HC Deb 03 May 2000 vol 349 c147W
Mr. Wigley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the cost to his Department of funding the pensions of Members of the European Parliament in each of the last three years; to how may beneficiaries these payments are made; and what estimate he has made of the future annual liability for making such pension payments. [119585]

Mr. Andrew Smith

Expenditure on pensions is met from the EC budget.