John Bufton (EFD), in writing. − I voted against the report on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2014 - all sections.

My party is against the vast majority of measures this report outlines, including allocating more money to the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund, Intelligent Energy Europe Programme II and action on climate change. We are completely against allocating an additional EUR 1 billion for sustainable rural development, an extra EUR 2 million for Frontex, an extra EUR 34 million for the Common European Asylum System, an additional EUR 40 million for the asylum and migration fund, a further EUR 80 million for sustainable energy and an additional EUR 100 million for the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund. In short, we are against all increases in payments and the increased commitment of the UK to the EU that these payments represent.