Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 16 November 2010.
Peter Bone
Conservative, Wellingborough
2:30,
16 November 2010
Under the previous Labour Government our total net contribution to the EU was £19.8 billion; under the coalition Government it will be £41 billion. Will the British people not think it bizarre, bewildering and a betrayal that over half the money saved by cuts will go not to reduce the deficit, but to subsidise other western European countries?