HC Deb 22 April 1998 vol 310 cc632-3W
Ms Lawrence

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he will publish the statement on the 1998 Community Budget; and if he will make a statement. [39612]

Mrs. Liddell

I have today laid before Parliament the Statement on the 1998 Community Budget, entitled "European Community Finances". This White Paper is the eighteenth 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 Community Budget for 1998 as adopted by the European Parliament, and the United Kingdom's gross and net contributions to the Community Budget between 1995 and 1998.

I have placed copies of the White Paper in both Libraries of the House.