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"Mr President, I am delighted to be able to defy the stereotype on this one, and confirm that my delegation voted for this report on the European Solidarity Fund. On many occasions in this Chamber we have heard about the difficulties with administration and we have heard about the difficulties with allocation, and it seems that there is a general desire to reform, rather than abolish, the Fund.
We welcome the acknowledgement that in these challenging economic times there is no sustainable argument for increasing the budget line allocated to the Fund. Rather, the report concentrates on improving the functioning of the Fund and particularly on the issues of speed and simplicity and getting the money to where it is needed as quickly as possible and with as little loss through administration as possible. I have particular experience of this, representing the only region in the UK that has ever received Solidarity Funds – in 2007 – when we had some very bad flooding. I can confirm that those funds arrived almost two years after the event and they were simply used for paying back money which had already been advanced by the UK Government. I do not feel that was actually how the Fund was structured."@en1
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