EU Financial Management

The hon. Gentleman refers to structural funds and suggests that we should give as much as we reasonably can and be fair in giving money to other countries. Does not that belie the fundamental point that structural funds are at the heart of regionalisation, which has a severely adverse impact on the United Kingdom—on hospitals, ambulance services, the police, fire authorities and so on? The whole process is disintegrating under the guise of the creation of a more centralised system, which is of course what the EU really is.