To ask the Prime Minister if he will list those areas for which EU funding has been reduced as a consequence of the Berlin Summit. [81042]

Berlin set ceilings for spending commitments on each main policy category for the period 2000–06. The ceiling for the existing EU for 2006 is nearly 7 per cent. lower in real terms than the EC Budget for 1999. For comparison, in 1992, an increase in spending of over 30 per cent. was agreed for the period to 1999.