§ Mr. Mike O'BrienTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proposals Her Majesty's Government put to the Council of Ministers of the EU with regard to deleting elements of non-compulsory expenditure from the draft preliminary budget for 1995–96. [30168]
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryThe Government's policy is to scrutinise all expenditure, both compulsory and non-compulsory, during the annual EC budgetary process, and to seek reductions where appropriate. This was the case in the preparation of both the 1995 and 1996 Community budgets, as in other years.