§ Mr. CashTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the European Commission(a) has spent and (b) is proposing to spend on propagating its proposals for a single currency and on the green paper on the subject. [28077]
§ Mrs. Angela KnightLine A-3501 of the European Community budget sets out expenditure on technical preparatory work for economic and monetary union. An element of the expenditure under line B3–306 is attributable to the provision of information on economic and monetary union, while an element of the expenditure under line B5–600 covers relevant statistical information. These figures do not include Commission staff and publication costs, which are not broken down by function in the budget. Copies of the European Community budget for years to 1995, and of the preliminary draft budget for 1996, are available in the House of Commons Library.
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