EU Membership Costs

HC Deb 15 February 2000 vol 344 cc527-8W

Mr. Robertson

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the financial cost of the United Kingdom's membership of the EU in(a) gross and (b) net terms for each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what estimate he has made of the costs for each of the next three years. [110250]

Miss Melanie Johnson

Details of the United Kingdom's gross and net contributions to the EC Budget for the years 1993–94 to 1997–98 are given in Table 7A of the 1999 Departmental Report of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Departments (Cm 4218). The latest forecasts of the UK's net contributions to the EC Budget for the years 1998–99 to 2001–02 are given in the footnote to Table B12 of the November 1999 Pre-Budget Report (Cm 4479).