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1133652

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the contributions the UK would be legally required to pay into the budget of the European Union in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020 in the event that the UK left the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	267155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government has been clear from the outset of negotiations that if we left the EU without a deal, the UK has obligations to the EU, and the EU obligations to the UK that will survive the UK’s withdrawal, and that these would need to be resolved.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 25/06/2019 08:00:29 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1093481

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will make an estimate of the potential costs of the UK's contributions to the EU budget in the event that the UK remains in the EU for a period of two years.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
	uin	235750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government will bring forward proposals for a third meaningful vote as soon as possible and, if it is passed, an extension to 22 May will provide the time to pass the necessary legislation. If Parliament does not agree a deal this week, the EU has agreed to extend Article 50 until 12 April.</p><p>If Article 50 were to be extended for two years, as an EU Member State we would continue to have rights and obligations until exit.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 28/03/2019 10:58:01 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

1056674

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the United Kingdom has contributed to the EU budget in the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	218190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The EU annually publish a financial report, which details the levels of revenue and expenditure, received and executed by the EU, relative to Member States. Between 2008 and 2017, the UK has contributed €148 billion to the annual EU budget, and received €68 billion in receipts to both the public and private sector.</p><p>Additionally, HM Treasury produce an annual European Finances Statement which details the UK’s contribution to the EU over the past year. While the OBR produce an independent forecast for annual contributions to the EU.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 14/02/2019 13:53:13 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

971556

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to reduce the total net annual financial outflow from the UK to the EU; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Luton North
	tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
	uin	906801
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The UK and the EU reached an agreement in principle, in December 2017, on the financial settlement for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. This was set out in the Joint Report on progress during Phase 1 of the negotiations. These principles will become legally binding through a Withdrawal Agreement as set out in the Government’s White Paper on legislating for the Withdrawal Agreement, published in July this year.</p><p> </p><p>Post-exit, decisions on spending will be made based on domestic priorities, considering the economic environment, the fiscal position and the negotiated outcome.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/09/2018 16:17:09 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

776321

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the estimated net UK financial contribution to the EU will be in 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Kettering
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
	uin	901380
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2017 forecast for the UK’s gross contribution in 2018-19 was £16.0 billion. They will update the forecast in November 2017. The Office for Budget Responsibility does not provide a forecast for net UK contributions to EU budgets; they do provide a forecast of funds to be received by UK government bodies to administer (£5.6bn in 2018-19 in the March 2017 forecast) although this does not include receipts directly received by the private sector from the EU.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/10/2017 14:08:51 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

523399

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has seen the latest draft of the EU Commission's proposals for the (a) EU Budget and (b) any re-assessment and adjustments relating to previous years budgets; and if he will publish those proposals and their effect on the public purse before 23 June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Lincoln
	tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
	uin	39777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>We have not received any unpublished EU budget proposals or any re-assessments and adjustments relating to EU budgets of previous years. Any budget proposals must conform to the legally binding annual expenditure ceilings agreed in the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 13/06/2016 15:33:52 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

515228

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the UK's (a) payments to the EU, (b) receipts through EU schemes and (c) receipts through the UK rebate in each year between 2020 and 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Filton and Bradley Stoke
	tabling member printed	Jack Lopresti
	uin	35338
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>HM Treasury’s approach to estimating the net cost of the EU budget to the UK over the long term is set out in Annex B of <em>HM Treasury Analysis: the long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives, </em>publicly available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/517415/treasury_analysis_economic_impact_of_eu_membership_web.pdf</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 28/04/2016 13:57:19 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	3989 label Biography information for Jack Lopresti

453250

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what amount of funding the European Court of Auditors has recorded as having been misspent in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	27541
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>The European Court of Auditors prepares an annual audit report on the EU Budget which is published each year in November in relation to the previous EU financial year, running from January to December. This includes an estimated ‘error rate’ in relation to EU budget payments made which were not in compliance with EU regulatory requirements.</p><p>The latest audit report available, published in November 2015, relates to the financial year 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The 2014 report can be consulted at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/annualreports-2014/annualreports-2014-EN.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/annualreports-2014/annualreports-2014-EN.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 24/02/2016 16:16:43 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

438585

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the amount of direct private sector receipts from the EU was in 2014; and what the expected amount of direct private sector receipts from the EU is for 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	20284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>Neither the EU Commission nor HM Treasury publish a definitive figure for UK private sector receipts in isolation from total UK receipts. Private sector receipts may, however, be estimated by subtracting the OBR’s estimates for receipts to the UK public sector from total UK receipts published by the EU Commission. For all years up to 2013, this estimate has been detailed in the Technical Annex of HM Treasury’s European Finances White Paper, as shown in the table below. The below figure for 2014 can be estimated using the same methodology as in the White Paper.</p><br /><p>The OBR do not publish a forecast of private sector receipts. As the EU Commission have not yet published total UK receipts for 2015, we are unable to provide an expected figure for private sector receipts in 2015.</p><p><br> <br></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>£bn</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Receipts</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Public sector receipts</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Private sector receipts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>5.36</p></td><td><p>4.00</p></td><td><p>1.36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>5.62</p></td><td><p>4.17</p></td><td><p>1.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>5.70</p></td><td><p>4.13</p></td><td><p>1.57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>5.78</p></td><td><p>4.77</p></td><td><p>1.02</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p><p>The figure for total receipts is taken from Page 16, Table 3B of HM Treasury’s European Union Finances 2015, accessible at this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483344/EU_finances_2015_final_web_09122015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483344/EU_finances_2015_final_web_09122015.pdf</a>. The original data is from the European Commission’s Financial Report 2014 (available at this link: <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/budget/financialreport/2014/foreword/index_en.html" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/budget/financialreport/2014/foreword/index_en.html</a>), expressed in euros, and has been converted to sterling using the annual average exchange rate for that year.</p><br /><p>The figure for public sector receipts is taken from Page 14, Table 3A of HM Treasury’s European Union Finances 2015, accessible at this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483344/EU_finances_2015_final_web_09122015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483344/EU_finances_2015_final_web_09122015.pdf</a>.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 07/01/2016 17:04:51 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

425383

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much total government funding the UK contributed towards the budget of the EU in each year since 1992.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	14441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>Details of UK contributions to the EU Budget are published annually in a document entitled European Union Finances.</p><br /><p>The latest edition (European Union Finances 2014) was published in December 2014 (Cm 8974) and is available in the House library. Table 3A on page 14 provides details of UK contributions, rebate and public sector receipts for the period 2008 to 2014.</p><br /><p>Figures for years prior to 2008 can be found in previous editions of this publication, which are also be available in the House library.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 10/11/2015 14:48:09 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie