HC Deb 16 February 1990 vol 167 cc424-5W
Mr. Marlow

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide whatever information is available pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Northampton, North on 5 February,Official Report, column 476.

Mr. Ryder

[holding answer 15 February 1990]: Annual payments to member states under the principal sectors of the Community budget are given in table 18 of the recent Court of Auditors' report (Official Journal of the European Communities, C 312, 12 December 1989). The information in this table, which is for the period 1984–88, covers 87.8 per cent. of total budgetary expenditure. It does not cover all payments to member states and it excludes expenditure on aid to third countries and administration. Information about total expenditure under each of the headings of the Community budget, including the administrative costs of the central Community institutions, is given in table 16 of the Court of Auditors' report and in table 1 of the statement on the 1989 Community budget (Cm. 680). The latter also includes estimates for 1989 which will be updated in the statement on the 1990 Community budget to be published later this year.

Actual amounts of own resources collected by each member state between 1984 and 1988 are shown in table 19 of the Court of Auditors' report. Table 2 of Cm. 680 gives similar information for the period 1986 to 1989.

Table 0201 of the January 1990 edition of "Eurostat" gives information about member states' population sizes in 1988.

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