How much eu cost uk

The rest of the Pink Book will be published as scheduled on 31 October It is best thought of as a theoretical liability.

This is because before the UK government transfers any money to the EU, the adjustment or abatement is applied. Under these, the EU makes payments to the UK authorities, which are then distributed in accordance with EU rules, for example, to farmers.

Some have argued that there are other payments that should be considered. The net figure usually published as part of the Pink Book, available in Table 1 only considers payments the UK government receives from the EU, not payments that the EU makes directly to the UK private sector such as grants to universities.

While the Pink Book table is not designed to capture those payments, the European Commission EC provides net figures including payments to the UK public and private sector. Data from the European Commission EC does account for some credits to the private sector. Let's now take a look at how it calculates the UK's contribution using its own figures. Download the data. Using the latest available figures published by the EC , a wider estimate of flows between the UK and the EU can be calculated.

The money we get back will be spent on things the government may or may not choose to fund upon leaving the EU. The Treasury and ONS both publish figures on the subject, but they're slightly different.

The ONS also publishes other figures on contributions to EU institutions which don't include all our payments or receipts, which complicates matters. The ONS figures ultimately come from the Treasury , and the numbers aren't the same because they categorise and account for the payments differently. The European Commission is still another source of information which shows lower contributions.

News this year has fractured communities, and caused confusion and panic for many of us. The UK agreed to make a series of payments to the EU, as part of the deal when it left in January , often called the divorce bill. A big part of the initial bill was the UK's remaining EU budget contributions, covering the time up until the end of , when things largely stayed the same.

In the early years, a lot of the payments will be paying for a share of spending that the EU committed to while the UK was a member, but has not yet funded. Most of the money paid in later years will be contributions towards funding the pensions of EU staff. The UK will also continue to make contributions to take part in three EU programmes for