Written question asked by Peter Bone (Conservative) on Wednesday, 20 June 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 25 June 2012. It was answered by Mark Hoban (Conservative) on Monday, 25 June 2012 on behalf of the Treasury.

UK Membership of EU

Question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the net cost to the public purse was of the UK's membership of the EU in each year between 2005 and 2012; and what estimate he has made of such costs in each of the next three years.

[113659]

Answer

Details of the UK's contributions to the EU Budget over the period 2005-06 to 2009-10 were published in December 2011 in Table 3C (page 19) of European Union Finances 2011 (Cm 8232). This document is available in the House Library.

The Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) latest forecast of UK contributions to the EU Budget over the period 2010-11 to 2016-17 was published in March 2012. This can be found in Table 2.15 of the OBR's “economic and fiscal outlook supplementary fiscal tables” at:

http://budgetresponsibility.independent.gov.uk/

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Type: Written question
Reference: 113659; 547 cc80-1W
Session: 2012-13
Subjects: Costs UK membership of EU
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

UK Membership of EU

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