EU Budget: Contributions

(asked on 24th May 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the UK's reste à liquider payments were in each of the last 10 years; and if he will estimate the value of those payments in each of the next 10 years.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 2nd June 2016

Reste à liquider (RAL) represents, in a particular year, the sum of outstanding commitments which have been agreed, but that may be paid in a future period. No sum is specifically allocated to the UK.

The total amounts of EU budget payments of RAL are only available for the past 9 years. The payments of RAL sit within the spending limits set out in the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020.

The amount of payments on RAL made in EU budgetary years is provided in the European Commission’s annual Report on Budgetary and Financial Management.

The 2015 edition can be viewed at the following link:

http://ec.europa.eu/budget/library/biblio/documents/2015/2015_report_budgetary_financialmanagement.pdf.

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