§ Mr. Marlowasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the net cash payment or receipt into the Community budget for each Community country during each calendar year since 1970 including the estimate for the current year, expressed as a total and per capita.
§ Mr. Ridley[pursuant to his reply, 27 July 1983]: The two tables below show the information requested for the period 1975 to 1982, on the basis of Commission estimates and excluding special refunds to the United Kingdom and Germany. The Commission has not made available estimates for the period before 1975; it has also not produced estimates for 1983.
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Table 2—Net contributions (-) and receipts (+) by member state per head (Allocated budget, excluding United Kindom and German refunds) 1975 ecu 1976 ecu 1977 ecu 1978 ecu 1979 ecu 1980 ecu 1981 ecu 1982* ecu Net positions before United Kingdom refunds Belgium-Luxembourg +13.3 +34.0 +32.3 +33.1 +59.8 +43.0 +50.4 +49.9 Denmark +46.8 +58.0 +57.6 +74.6 +74.3 +63.8 +54.5 +57.4 Germany -16.3 -17.1 -23.9 -9.7 -23.3 -24.8 -27.3 -33.8 Greece — — — — — — +17.8 +70.9 France +0.7 +1.1 -5.8 -7.0 -1.5 +8.0 +10.7 +0.3 Ireland +55.0 +48.9 +64.8 +98.4 +161.8 +191.1 +169.0 +207.1 Italy +0.7 +4.4 +5.2 -5.9 +9.4 +12.9 +13.8 +28.2 Netherlands -2.0 +16.1 +6.4 +2.9 +20.5 +32.0 +16.8 +21.1 United Kingdom +1.7 -1.6 -2.3 -4.1 -15.2 -27.0 -25.3 -36.2 * provisional Source: Commission; OECD population estimates.