§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Prime Minister whether she will make it her policy not to agree to full membership of the EEC for East Germany in advance of other east European states.
§ The Prime MinisterWe support the integration of the territory of the GDR into the EC as soon as practicable after unification. Intensive and detailed negotiations between Germany and the EC will be required on, for example, agriculture and fisheries, trade and regional policy. I look forward to discussing this at the informal meeting of EC Heads of State or Government in Dublin on 28 April.
§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Prime Minister whether the Government will make it their policy not to agree to an increase in EEC funding for East Germany until measures have been taken to eliminate the United Kingdom's net contribution to the EEC budget; and if she will publish in760W the Official Report a table showing that contribution for each year since 1979, the estimated outturn for 1989 and the forecast for the current year.
§ The Prime MinisterNo. The United Kingdom's net contribution to the European Community budget was £947 million in 1979 and £706 million in 1980. Information about the United Kingdom's contribution in later years is given in the successive annual statements on the Community budget. The latest published estimate of the United Kingdom's net contribution to the Community budget in 1989 is in the statement on the 1989 Community budget (Cm. 680). The statement on the 1990 Community budget will be published shortly and will contain a revised estimate of the United Kingdom's net contribution in 1989 and an estimate of the net contribution in 1990.