§ Mr. Richard Shepherdasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will detail the gross national payments to the European Economic Council for each member State allocated by resource: common agriculture policy, common tariff and value-added tax.
§ Mr. Lawson[pursuant to his reply, 13 January 1981]: The Community budget is financed from own resources.
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Member States Sugar and Isoglucose Levies Agricultural Levies Customs Duties VAT Own Resources Total MEUA £ million MEUA £ million MEUA £ million MEUA £ million MEUA £ million Belgium 33 20 158 95 404 242 330 198 925 555 Denmark 20 12 7 4 131 78 190 114 348 208 Germany 141 84 220 132 1,793 1,073 2,380 1,425 4,534 2,714 France 171 102 91 54 910 545 1,790 1,071 2,962 1,772 Ireland 5 3 3 2 66 40 62 37 136 82 Italy 61 37 390 233 656 393 791 473 1,898 1,136 Luxembourg — — 0.13 0.08 5 3 15 9 20.13 12.08 Netherlands 43 26 240 145 550 329 439 263 1,272 763 United Kingdom 31 19 410 245 1,485 889 1,259 754 3,185 1,907 Total 505 303 1,519.13 910.08 6,000 3,592 7,256 4,344 15,280.13 9,149.08 Conversions between European Units of Account and Sterling are at the rate of £1=1.67 EUA, the average exchange rate for 1980. 1980—the latest month for which an appropriate estimate of average earnings is available—has been used. This has been obtained by updating the figure in the new earnings survey for April 1980 of average earnings of full time adult male manual workers taking account of the movements in a centred three-month moving average of the seasonally adjusted monthly index of average earnings of all employees covering the whole economy.
Tax year Threshold at current prices Threshold at 1949–50 prices index (1949–50=100) Threshold as percentage of average manual earnings £ per cent. Single person 1979–80 1,165 119.2 21.9 *1980–81 1,375 120.5 21.7 Married man without children 1979–80 1,815 116.3 34.1 *1980–81 2,145 118.0 33.9 These consist of sugar and isoglucose levies, agricultural levies on trade with non-member countries, duties collected under the common customs tariff and VAT own resources.
The following table shows the estimated gross payments due from each member State to finance the 1980 European Community budget, as amended by supplementary budget No. 2 which was adopted by the European Parliament on 23 December 1980.