Claim: In 2018, the UK contributed £11 billion to the EU and received EU funding of £6 billion.
Fact-check: This post about EU budget contributions is misleading - Full Fact
Verdict: data is not yet available for 2018. in 2017, the uk paid roughly £12 billion into the eu budget and received around £5.5 billion back in spending from the eu.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joël Reland
Date published: 2019-05-16T00:00:00