Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the review of the Nursery Milk Scheme, what assessment officials of his Department have made of the potential effect of claiming subsidies for school milk under the EU School Milk Scheme on the UK's EU rebate.

The size of the proposed budget for the EU School Milk Scheme is €80 million per year. The exact Member State allocations have yet to be finalised.

The net monetary impact on the UK and the impact on the UK's rebate from the EU budget of claiming subsidies for school milk under the scheme will depend on both the actual take-up by Member States of available funds and other technical factors that determine the UK's contributions to the EU budget.

For any given level of EU expenditure under this scheme, the marginal impact of every €1 drawn down by the UK would be a reduction in the UK rebate by approximately two thirds of this figure.