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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 28082, tabled on 23 February 2016

Question

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Conservative
Chesham and Amersham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the UK paid to the EU for agricultural levies in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

26 February 2016

UK Contributions to the EU budget are set out in Table C3 of HM Treasury publication “European Union Finances 2015: statement on the 2015 EU Budget and measures to counter fraud and financial mismanagement” in December 2015.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483344/EU_finances_2015_final_web_09122015.pdf

The contribution from sugar levies for the previous 5 years were:

2010: £8m

2011: £8m

2012: £10m

2013: £9m

2014: £2m

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