§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what are the projected net receipts under the combined structural and cohesion funds of the EC budget of (i) Spain, (ii) Portugal, (iii) Greece and (iv) Ireland, from 1997 to 1999, expressed as an average sum per day. [20048]
§ Mr. Greg Knight[holding answer 13 March 1997]: It is not possible to give figures for structural and cohesion funds receipts for the period 1997–99 by member state, since these will depend upon the rate of implementation of each of the member state's SCFs programmes. Forecasts of gross allocations by member state for the period 1994–99 are available, however. These are shown in the table, expressed as an average sum per day. These allocations will be partly offset by the contributions each member state makes to the total SCFs budget, but the size of these contributions, for 1997–99, will not be known until 1999.
Gross allocations under the structural and cohesion funds 1997–99: average per day Million ecu, 1996 prices Spain 22 Portugal 10 Greece 9 Ireland 4