Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will reimburse local authorities and other UK recipients of payments from the European Structural and Investment Funds for any costs associated with requirements to reimburse the European Commission resulting from (1) ex-post evaluations of the current programming period, or (2) Brexit.

The Chancellor confirmed that the government will guarantee EU funding for structural and investment fund projects, including agri-environment schemes, signed after the Autumn Statement and which continue after we have left the EU. Any form of ex-post evaluation, to the extent it falls post-exit, will be addressed as part of the negotiations in the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.