Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Spending Review has allocated funds for new payments to the European Union, over and above those commitments in treaties from the last Parliament.

Payments into the EU budget are governed by two treaties signed during the last Parliament, the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) and Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA).

Payments under the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) are as classified as Annually Managed Expenditure and are therefore beyond the scope of Spending Review 2025 (SR25).

On 17 December 2025 the government announced the UK would join the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. As usual, any changes to Departmental Expenditure Limits will be included in a future OBR fiscal forecast.