HC Deb 24 January 1997 vol 288 c787W
Mr. Rooney

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many discretionary awards were made by each local authority(a) to people aged 16 to 17 years and (b) people aged 18 years and over in the last year for which figures are available. [12433]

Mr. Forth

[holding answer 23 January 1997]: Information in the age categories requested is not available. The numbers of discretionary awards made by local education authorities in England and Wales in the academic year 1994–95, the latest for which data are

Contributions to and receipts from the EC budget in 1995
net contribution (-) net receipt (+)
Gross contribution Gross receipts Net Contribution/ received No. of house Net per head Net per household
mecu £ million mecu £ million mecu £ million Population millions holds millions ecu £ ecu £
Belgium 2,680.1 2,194.8 2,368.9 1,940.0 -311.2 -254.9 10.0 4.0 -31.1 -25.5 -78.8 -64.5
Denmark 1,295.4 1,060.8 1,601.1 1,311.2 305.7 250.3 5.1 2.3 59.9 49.1 134.7 110.3
Germany 21,324.1 17,463.0 7,893.1 6,463.9 -13,431.0 -10,999.1 79.8 35.3 -168.3 -137.8 -380.9 -311.9
Greece 985.2 806.8 4,474.1 3,664.0 3,488.9 2,857.2 10.3 3.2 338.7 277.4 1,090.3 892.9
Spain 3,645.2 2,985.2 10,863.3 8,896.3 7,218.1 5,911.1 38.9 11.8 185.6 152.0 609.6 499.3
France 11,876.8 9,726.3 10,149.6 8,311.8 -1,727.2 -1,414.5 56.7 21.5 -30.5 -24.9 -80.2 -65.7
Ireland 664.8 544.4 2,551.7 2,089.7 1,886.9 1,545.2 3.5 1.0 539.1 441.5 1,831.9 1,500.2
Italy 6,413.7 5,252.4 5,799.6 4,749.5 -614.1 -502.9 56.8 19.9 -10.8 -8.9 -30.8 -25.3
Luxembourg 167.6 137.3 122.8 100.6 -44.8 -36.7 0.4 0.2 -112.0 -91.7 -298.7 -244.6
Netherlands 4,349.6 3,562.0 2,344.9 1,920.3 -2,004.7 -1,641.7 15.1 6.2 -132.8 -108.7 -325.4 -266.5
Austria 1,762.9 1,443.7 857.8 702.5 -905.1 -741.2 7.8 3.0 -116.0 -95.0 -300.7 -246.3
Portugal 864.9 708.3 3,246.0 2,658.3 2,381.1 1,950.0 9.9 3.2 240.5 197.0 755.9 619.0
Finland 887.4 726.7 722.8 591.9 -164.6 -134.8 5.0 2.0 -32.9 -27.0 -80.7 -66.1
Sweden 1,658.3 1,358.0 721.0 590.5 -937.3 -767.6 8.6 3.8 -109.0 -89.3 -244.7 -200.4
UK 9,251.6 7,576.4 4,531.4 3,710.9 -4,720.2 -3,865.5 56.5 22.4 -83.5 -68.4 -210.5 -172.4

Notes:

1. Sources: Court of Auditors Report on 1995 Community Budget and Eurostat.

2. The Court of Auditors uses ecu figures. These have been converted to sterling using the annual average £ sterling/ecu exchange rate for 1995, = 1.2211 ecu.

3. Contribution figures are after account has been taken of the UK's abatement.

4. The Court of Auditors Report does not allocate all Community spending to the Member States so that the receipts figures in the table may not represent the full amount of expenditure by the Commission in each Member State. Consequently the net figures in the table are likely only to be indicative of the amount of Member States' net contributions.

5. Figures for both population and the number of households are the latest available (Eurostat figures) and relate to 1990–91.