EU: Financial Management and Fraud (EUC Report)

My Lords, I can help the Minister before he rises to answer that question—he might like the other barrel from this side of the argument. Would the noble Lord care to comment on the institutionalised fraud of all MEPs’ travel expenses? The EU machine only pays the business rate plus an allowance for mileage, right across the entire European Union. That is in the culture. Mr Knapman and all those other people from UKIP are only going along with that sort of thing. I do not condone it, but they are simply going along with the well-known culture of the European Union.