HC Deb 31 July 1978 vol 955 cc81-3W
Mr. John Moore

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing, in terms of £ sterling converted at the appropriate exchange rate for each member State of the EEC, the amount of money paid into EEC funds and the amount received

£ million
1973 1974 1975 1976
Belgium … … 177.3 194.1 244.4 357.2
Denmark … … 26.0 36.9 60.2 109.4
Germany … … 725.0 833.5 1,081.8 1,646.9
France … … 579.1 589.2 787.3 1,066.4
Ireland … … 5.3 7.2 10.5 16.5
Italy … … 382.8 375.5 445.5 549.7
Luxembourg … … 4.3 4.7 6.0 8.5
Netherlands … … 230.7 262.4 344.3 513.9
United Kingdom … … 167.8 228.8 333.5 521.1
Total … … 2,298.3 2,532.3 3,313.5 4,789.6

Only limited information confined to particular sectors is available in respect of receipts by all member States. The totals for receipts by Community financial

(b) the current account balance of payments with the rest of the world.

Mr. Robert Sheldon,

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 25th July 1978: Vol. 954, c. 685–86], gave the following answer:

Information on the current account with OPEC countries is not available. Figures for the balance of visible trade with oil exporting countries, including some non members of OPEC, on a quarterly balance of payments basis up to the end of March 1978 are given in the following table. Later trade figures and estimates of the balance of invisible transactions with this group of countries are not available.

from EEC funds in each year since Great Britain became a member of the EEC.

Mr. Joel Barnett,

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 14th July 1978; Vol. 953, c. 805–6], gave the following information:

The contributions by each member State to the 1973 to 1976 Community budgets were as follows:

years (a) from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, (b) for the supply of food aid, (c) from the European Regional Development Fund since 1975, when the fund was set up, and (d) for the 10 per cent reimbursement for the

£ million
1973 1974 1975 1976
Belgium … … 116.2 106.9 139.7 299.6
Denmark … … 151.9 153.8 193.6 312.1
Germany … … 449.1 425.5 503.6 845.1
France … … 612.5 413.5 810.4 1,025.3
Ireland … … 37.6 64.5 106.9 108.3
Italy … … 298.3 251.2 469.9 573.4
Luxembourg … … 3.2 1.4 5.2 7.5
Netherlands … … 303.6 292.5 350.4 640.4
United Kingdom … … 80.0 134.4 387.9 302.5
Total … … 2,052.4 1,843.7 2,967.6 4,114.2

Receipts by member States from the Social Fund have ben excluded as the only information available relates to commitments to member States rather than actual payments.

Conversions into sterling have been made on the basis of average annual exchange rates applied to member States' contributions and receipts expressed in national currencies.

Comparable information for 1977 is not yet available.