HC Deb 29 March 1979 vol 965 c344W
Mr. Marten

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much money in £ sterling the EEC has allocated to the Communist Party in Europe for the Assembly elections; and how much of this can be assumed to have come from the British contribution.

Mr. Judd

We understand from the European Assembly authorities that the sums allocated to the Communist Group in the Assembly under the 1978 and 1979 budgets were, respectively, £330,000 and £500,000. The allocations of these funds were made by the Assembly itself. Member States do not contribute to individual areas of expenditure but to the budget as a whole; in 1978 the United Kingdom proportion was 15.4 per cent. and this year is expected to be about 17.5 per cent.