§ Sir Anthony Meyerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will tabulate the payment appropriations in the 1983 and 1984 Community budgets, in pounds sterling, in accordance with the headings in table 1A of Cmnd. 9030, and adding the percentage of the total budget accounted for by each heading.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThe following table shows payment appropriations for 1983 including provision in the two 19W supplementary budgets for that year, together with figures for 1984 which are provisional pending publication in the Official Journal of the Communities.
Payment Appropriations in the 1983 and 1984 Budgets in £ million and as a percentage of the Total Budget 1983 1984 £ million per cent. £ million per cent. COMMISSION Administration 434 3.0 496 3.2 Research and investment 245 1.7 315 2.0 Industry, transport, energy 93 0.6 173 1.1 Own resources refund 554 3.9 653 4.2 Financial Mechanism — — — — Transitional refunds to Greece 37 0.3 28 0.2 Social fund 774 5.3 754 4.8 Regional fund 722 5.0 872 5.6 EMS interest rate subsidies 147 1.0 United Kingdom refunds 807 5.7 612 3.9 German refunds 156 1.1 130 0.8 EAGGF guarantee 9,063 63.1 10,190 65.1 EAGGF guidance 342 2.4 368 2.3 EAGGF fisheries 48 0.3 69 0.4 Development aid 569 4.0 554 3.5 Miscellaneous 143 1.0 183 1.2 Reserves 3 — 3 — Total Commission 14,137 98.4 15,400 98.3 OTHER INSTITUTIONS Parliament 131 0.9 148 1.0 Council 75 0.5 85 0.5 Court of Justice 17 0.1 19 0.1 Court of Auditors 10 0.1 11 0.1 Total other institutions 233 1.6 263 1.7 Total Budget 14,370 100 15,663 100 The 1983 figures have been converted from ecus using the average annual exchange rate for 1983 of £1 = 1.7496 ecu, except for UK refunds which have been converted using actual exchange rates. 1984 figures have been converted using the rate used to draw up the 1984 Community Budget of £1 = 1.6192.
§ Sir Anthony Meyerasked the Chancellor of the Exhequer if he will tabulate the estimated net contributions, corrected and uncorrected, to the Community budget of each member state of the European Economic Community, expressed in pounds sterling, for the years 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983, together with an index of the relative prosperity of each member state in terms of gross domestic product per head.
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Net contributions (-) and receipts (+) by member state—£ million Uncorrected net contribution (allocated budget excluding United Kingdom and German refunds) Corrected net contribution (allocated budget including United Kingdom and German refunds )† 1979‡ 1980║ 1981¶ 1982●* 1980║ 1981¶ 1982●* Belgium/Luxembourg +394 +263 +285 +285 +226 +244 +249 Denmark +246 +196 +154 +165 +176 +134 +146 Germany -925 -913 -931 -1,168 -1,171 -1,207 -1,308 Greece — — +96 +384 — +89 +369 France -50 +258 +318 -11 +49 +77 -237 Ireland +353 +389 +322 +410 +382 +31 +401 Italy +345 +441 +435 +905 +315 +303 +771 Netherlands +186 +272 +132 170 +225 +52 +119 United Kingdom -549 -906 -784 -1,140 -202 -5 -510 * Provisional. ● Converted at the annual average exchange rate of=£1=1.55 ecu.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThe following tables show the corrected and uncorrected net contributions of each member state and the index requested for the period 1979 to 1982. The estimates of uncorrected and corrected net contributions figures are based on Commission estimates in ecu converted to sterling using the average annual sterling/ecu exchange rate. The Commission has not produced estimates for 1983.
21W║ Converted at the annual average exchange rate of £1=1.67 ecu.
║ Converted at the annual average exchange rate of £1=1.81 ecu.
● Converted at the annual average exchange rate of £1=1.79 ecu.
Source: Commission.
† The refunds are attributed to the year for which they are negotiated, although sometimes paid in a later year; for example, 1982 refunds were paid in 1983.
Index of per capita GDP EC average=100
1979 1980 1981 1982 Belgium 121 115 107 98 Denmark 142 125 126 128 Germany 136 128 123 124 Greece 44 40 42 45 France 118 118 117 115 Ireland 50 51 54 58 Italy 63 67 68 70 Luxembourg 127 123 117 106 Netherlands 123 115 109 111 United Kingdom 80 90 98 97 Source:
European Economy.
§ Sir Anthony Meyerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects figures for the outturn of United Kingdom contributions to and receipts from the Community budget in 1983 to be published.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThe provisional outturn figures for the United Kingdom's contributions to and receipts from the Community budget in 1983 will be included in the "Statement on the 1984 Community Budget", which will be published in the next few months, when the relevant information is available from the Commission.