§ Mr. Spearingasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will tabulate in the Official Report the funds allocated by the EEC Commission and EEC Assembly, respectively, on the information campaign related to the EEC Assembly elections expenditure in the United Kingdom; and if he will provide an approximate breakdown of that expenditure.
§ Mr. Joel Barnett:As my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office told my hon. Friend on 29th November 1978, the sums available to the United Kingdom office of the Commission are 600,000 EUA from the 1978 Budget and 100,000 EUA from the 1979 Budget, making 700,000 EUA in all,
780Wpurposes. The table below shows figures for various different indices with footnotes explaining how they were calculated, and some of the differences between them
or some £469,000. The corresponding sums available to the Assembly Information Office in the United Kingdom are a maximum of 750,000 EUA from the 1978 Budget and 436,000 EUA from the 1979 Budget—the exact allocations have not yet been decided—making 1,186,000 EUA in total or some £795,000.
No further breakdown of these figures is available, since each Institution is responsible for implementing its own Budget and is not required to provide a detailed breakdown of how it intends to use the appropriations.