Lord Pearson of Rannoch – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Pearson of Rannoch on 2016-04-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O’Neill of Gatley on 1 April (HL7086), what are the annual (1) gross, and (2) net, costs of the UK’s contributions to the EU for each year from 2013 to 2015 inclusive, and why those figures were not provided in that answer.

Lord O’Neill of Gatley

The outturn figures for gross and net contributions to the EU Budget in the year’s 2013 and 2014 can be found in Table 3B, page 16, of European Union Finances 2015 (Cm 9167), which is easily available in the House library and on gov.uk. Equivalent figures for 2015 are not yet available.

As shown in Table 3B of European Union Finances 2015 (Cm 9167), the UK’s gross and net contributions in 2013 and 2014 were:

2013: Gross €17.07 billion Net €10.76 billion (£9.13 billion)

2014: Gross €14.07 billion Net €7.09 billion (£5.71 billion)

Equivalent figures for 2015 are not yet available.