Barry Gardiner
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EU Budget (Surcharge)
Barry Gardiner Excerpts(9 years, 6 months ago)
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Mr Osborne
My hon. Friend is absolutely right; they gave into all Europe’s demands and handed over more and more British taxpayers’ money. They were neither wise before this event, nor particularly wise after it.
Barry Gardiner (Brent North) (Lab)
Can the Chancellor confirm that when the EU budget is reconciled, it will show that the surcharge to the UK was paid in full, that it will show quite separately that there was a rebate that was applied, and that therefore his attempts to link the two are simply nonsense?
Mr Osborne
What we achieved was the simultaneous application of the rebate, so we will pay only £850 million.