To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what records his Department holds of grants made by institutions of the European Union to UK trades unions in the last five years. (186091)

The Department holds no records of these individual grants. Deployment of the EU budget is a matter for the European Commission (within the agreed framework). The Commission publishes information on the grants awarded under each EU policy area on its website at:

http://ec.europa.eu/grants/index_en.htm