EU Budgetary Rebate

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 16 November 2010.

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Photo of Peter Bone 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?