EU Budget

Mr. Bone
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the percentage change in the UK's net contribution to the EU budget between 2008-09 and 2010-11.

Ian Pearson
The latest estimate of UK net contributions to the EU Budget are £4.2 billion in 2007-08, £3.0 billion in 2008-09, £4.8 billion in 2009-10 and £6.0 billion in 2010-11, as given in footnote 3 of Table B15 of the December 2009 pre-Budget report.