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European Communities (Finance) Bill

I am grateful, as no one on the Conservative Benches, let alone a Minister, has ever before described me as a leading light. The hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) urged the Minister to get to the crux of the matter, which is how much extra the Bill will cost the British taxpayer. Will he therefore make that cost explicit, and will he say why the British taxpayer should pay more money to an organisation whose accounts have not been signed off by the auditor for 13 years running because of all the fraud that goes on?