{"id":7911,"date":"2021-07-17T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T06:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/uk-puts-brexit-divorce-bill-at-e43-8b\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T06:03:18","slug":"uk-puts-brexit-divorce-bill-at-e43-8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/uk-puts-brexit-divorce-bill-at-e43-8b\/","title":{"rendered":"UK puts Brexit divorce bill at \u20ac43.8B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Britain estimates its total Brexit divorce bill is \u20ac43.8 billion \u2014 lower than the European Commission&#8217;s own figure.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/en\/\">Report<\/a> informs, citing Politico, that although it fully left the European Union at the start of 2021, the U.K. remains liable for multi-year commitments to the bloc&#8217;s budget stretching beyond its membership, including the pension costs of EU officials and MEPs.<\/p>\n<p>The latest estimate from the British Treasury today, working out at \u00a337.3 billion, falls below the \u20ac47.5 billion (or \u00a340.8 billion) figure contained in the EU&#8217;s own annual accounts for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the figures in a written parliamentary statement published Thursday, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: &#8220;HM Treasury estimate that the current value of the financial settlement is \u00a337.3bn. This remains within the Government\u2019s\u202fpreviously published\u202freasonable central range, adjusted to\u202ftake into account\u202fthe UK\u2019s 31 January 2020 exit date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A document published alongside the statement shows that Britain\u2019s bill includes \u20ac7.8 billion in EU contributions racked up after it delayed Brexit from the original March 2019 date, plus \u20ac11.2 billion covering the one-year, post-Brexit transition period that followed Britain\u2019s formal exit in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/finance\/uk-puts-brexit-divorce-bill-at-43-8b\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Britain estimates its total Brexit divorce bill is \u20ac43.8 billion \u2014 lower than the European Commission&#8217;s own figure. Report informs, citing Politico, that although it fully left the European Union at the start of 2021, the U.K. remains liable for multi-year commitments to the bloc&#8217;s budget stretching beyond its membership, including the pension costs&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/uk-puts-brexit-divorce-bill-at-e43-8b\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK puts Brexit divorce bill at \u20ac43.8B<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2145,280,2143,2144,2142],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-438b","tag-bill","tag-brexit","tag-divorce","tag-puts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}