EU Budget

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 17 July 2013.

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Photo of Richard Shepherd Richard Shepherd Conservative, Aldridge-Brownhills

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in which of the last 20 years the auditors of the EU have refused to approve the EU accounts; and what the reasons for such refusals were in each case.

Photo of Greg Clark Greg Clark The Financial Secretary to the Treasury

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.

For the last 18 consecutive years the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has not been able to give a positive statement of assurance on the spending of EU funds, due to material error being found in EU budget payments. The ECA requires an error rate of less than 2% before declaring the EU budget to be free from material error.

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