To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the outcome of the Berlin European Council. [79958]

At Berlin, we won a good deal for Britain.For the first time, spending on the existing member states has been brought under strict control, with a lower ceiling for spending in the existing member states in 2006 than in 2000.On agriculture, price cuts were agreed to bring milk, cereals and beef prices closer to world prices. A British family of four will benefit by £65 a year.We won a good deal for UK regions.The proportion of the UK living in regions covered by Objective 1 will increase by two-thirds and include for the first time Cornwall, West Wales & the Valleys and South Yorkshire.And we have preserved the British abatement.