HC Deb 19 November 1998 vol 319 cc818-9W
Sir Richard Body

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place in the Library a breakdown of the current expenditure in the United Kingdom under EU budget lines (i) B3-300 and (ii) B3-301. [60641]

Ms Quin

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, North (Mr. Henderson), the then Minister of State with responsibility for Europe, to the hon. Member for South-West Devon (Mr. Streeter) on 3 February 1998,Official Report, column 597. It explained that budget lines B3-300 and B3-301 of the EC budget, which fund information activity within the EU, are not broken down by Member State.