Glasnost in Whitehall?

The Treasury have released figs on how much the ECJ ruling on Controlled Foreign Companies is going to cost them. Its easy to find... if you happen to be looking through the footnotes to table 4B, on page 240, Annex B.

Its 540m in total to 2010 and goes up over time:

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10
-15m -100m -175m -250m


PBR also contains further evidence of how hard the Treasury finds it to predict how much we are going to be paying into the EU: Spending for this year, for instance, has gone up from £600m to £2,800 m since the Budget a couple of months ago. Its a bit of a mess.

£bn	99-00	00-01	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05	05-06	06-07	07-08
Budget 1999	3.2	3.4	3.8
Budget 2000	3	3.3	3.4
Budget 2001	3.3	4.1	3.4	3.5	3.8
Budget 2002		4.3	1.5	3	3.2
Budget 2003			1.5	3.1	3.2	3.7	4
Budget 2004				3.1	3.3	3.3	4.3
Budget 2005						4.3	3.8	3.4	5.2
Budget 2006						2.6	3.3	0.6	4.2
PBR 2006							4.4	2.8	4.5