EU: Budget

Lord Hamilton of Epsom Excerpts

Thursday 28th April 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch]

My Lords—

[Lord Hamilton of Epsom]

My Lords—

[Lord Marlesford]

My Lords, did not my noble friend’s earlier answer, when he described how information was not available, give a bit of a clue as to one way in which we can make progress? Would it not be much more satisfactory if there were full details of any failure properly to account for national expenditures in the EU budget? In that way we would at least know who was not doing things properly, by how much and when, and that shaming could have some role in getting people to behave better.