Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the total net contribution of the UK to EU expenditure for the past 20 years, expressed in 2017 prices.

The Government does not hold estimates of the total net contribution of the UK to EU expenditure in 2017 prices.

Using the Office for National Statistics’ GDP Deflator, as of March 2017, the House of Commons Library briefing paper The UK’s contribution to the EU Budget has calculated the total annual UK contributions to the EU and its predecessors in real (2016) prices, dating back to 1973.

Both gross and net contributions are given in Table 3, page 10 of the document. The totals for net contributions do not account for payments made directly from the EU to private sector bodies.

All other underlying assumptions used are detailed in the publication.