Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the estimated net UK financial contribution to the EU will be in 2018-19.

The Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2017 forecast for the UK’s gross contribution in 2018-19 was £16.0 billion. They will update the forecast in November 2017. The Office for Budget Responsibility does not provide a forecast for net UK contributions to EU budgets; they do provide a forecast of funds to be received by UK government bodies to administer (£5.6bn in 2018-19 in the March 2017 forecast) although this does not include receipts directly received by the private sector from the EU.