EU Financial Management

I am grateful for that guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker. However, I endorse the Economic Secretary’s most recent comment. It would be absurd for this country not to be in the EU, and that is why we take such an interest in improving it. To avoid a sense of sharing sanctimonious pleasure, will he confirm that the UK Government distribute approximately £2 billion in benefit fraud per annum, which far exceeds fraud in the whole EU? That puts the matter in context, not least because the National Audit Office has qualified the accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions on more than one occasion.