Estimates of the costs of European Economic Area (EEA) health care claims are made annually for the purposes of provisions made in the Department's accounts in accordance with Treasury resource accounting rules. For 2007-08 the totals are set out in the following table.
£ Claims by EEA member states against UK 630,400,000 Claims by UK against EEA member states 45,900,000 Note: Totals are rounded to nearest £100,000. Source: 2007-08 Resource Accounting and Budgeting (RAB) exercise.
The estimates of such costs for 2008-09 have yet to be completed and could not be made available in advance of the publication of the Department's 2008-09 resource accounts.