§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is yet in a position to state whether the sum of £700,000 illegally obtained by Mr. Telliez of Boulogne in milk subsidies for 20,000 non-existent children will be paid from Common Market funds or from the funds of the member state whose Department made the unlawful payments.
§ Mr. Ian Stewart[pursuant to his reply, 4 July 1984, c.152]: As I indicated in my reply to my hon. Friend on 21 May at column 309, if a sum has been fraudulently claimed in the agricultural sector of the budget, the member state in which the fraud occurred is required to recover the moneys wrongly paid. If the member state has been negligent in any way, it will have to bear the financial consequences. The alleged fraud referred to is now a matter for the French authorities and the Commission.