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Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston Excerpts
Tuesday 22nd January 2013

(11 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston Portrait Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston) (Lab)
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Will the Minister update the House on the progress made in negotiating the multiannual financial framework?

David Lidington Portrait Mr Lidington
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We continue to work closely with other EU member states to try to achieve a settlement, which would be agreed on the basis of a significant further cut from the figures that the Commission currently proposes, and to maintain and protect the United Kingdom’s rebate and so deliver a better deal than our predecessors achieved last time the negotiations took place.