European Community Budget

HC Deb 11 July 1997 vol 297 c630W

Mr. Timms

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he will publish the statement on the 1997 European Community Budget. [8726]

Mrs. Liddell

I have today laid before Parliament the Statement on the 1997 Community Budget, entitled "European Community Finances". This White Paper is the seventeenth in the series. As in the past, it covers annual budgetary matters and includes details of recent developments in European Community financial management and in countering fraud against the Community Budget. It also describes the budget for 1997 as adopted by the European Parliament and the United Kingdom's gross and net contributions to the Community Budget over the years 1994 to 1997.