John Redwood

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Redwood Proposes Tackling of EU Fraud & Waste as Solution to need for change in British Rebate

Mr. John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): Will the UK Government table a paper on the budget, in a spirit helpful to our partners, pointing out that, according to the auditors, the sums lost through fraud and waste are more than twice the size of the British rebate? Would it not be productive to obtain agreement from those partners to tackle fraud and waste, in which case we would have some money to sort out whether other countries should get rebates or whether we should back certain worthy programmes?

The Prime Minister: I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that helpful advice, which I shall pause to reflect on.