WeekendAway click on this link www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/leave_ministers_commit_to_maintain_eu_funding
It's on the official Vote Leave website.
In case you don't want to risk the link, I will paste the entire text of the letter and the list of signatories:
"It is important that people and organisations now receiving funding from the European Union know that their funding is safe if we Vote Leave on 23 June.
According to the Office for National Statistics, the official bill for our EU membership in the last year for which we have figures was £19.1 billion - that amounts to over £350 million each week.
We get some of this money back, partly through a negotiated rebate and partly through payments to farmers, universities, regional funds, cultural organisations, and others. Our net contribution to the EU budget is £10.6 billion. We have no control over much of the money spent by the EU in Britain.
Further, we cannot count on the rebate. It is negotiated with the other member states. Its importance is diminishing. The EU budget and our contributions to it are forecast to increase over the next decade as they have continually since we joined the Common Market in 1972.
There are of course some benefits from the EU. There are also many other costs, direct and indirect, of EU membership on top of our official contributions to the EU’s budget.
For example, the UK is set to pay out between £7 billion and £43 billion by 2021 in tax refunds to big businesses which have successfully used the European Court and EU law to escape taxes lawfully imposed on them in Britain. If we stay, these bills will be paid for by British taxpayers on P.A.Y.E. instead of that money going to public services. If we Vote Leave, the Government will pass legislation to prevent these payments being made so that taxpayers are not given these huge bills.
We can also restore our taxation of offshore companies set aside by the European Court, a decision which costs British taxpayers over £800 million each year. There will be many other savings, including from reforming EU procurement rules that add costs and delays to building schools and hospitals.
It is therefore clear that there is more than enough money to ensure that those who now get funding from the EU - including universities, scientists, family farmers, regional funds, cultural organisations and others - will continue to do so while also ensuring that we save money that can be spent on our priorities.
If the public votes to leave on 23 June, we will continue to fund EU programmes in the UK until 2020, or up to the date when the EU is due to conclude individual programmes if that is earlier than 2020.
We will also be able to spend the money much more effectively. For example, some of the bureaucracy around payments to farmers is very damaging and can be scrapped once we take back control.
The funding system for scientists is also unnecessarily bureaucratic. As the Nobel Prize winner Andre Geim said: ‘I can offer no nice words for the EU framework programmes which ... can be praised only by Europhobes for discrediting the whole idea of an effectively working Europe.’ After we vote leave, it should be a priority to increase funding for science and fix problems with the funding system, not all of which are the fault of the EU.
Many have claimed that there would be an immediate blow to the British economy if we take back control. But the Chairman of the IN campaign itself, Lord Rose, admitted:
‘Nothing is going to happen if we come out of Europe in the first five years… . There will be absolutely no change… It’s not going to be a step change or somebody’s going to turn the lights out and we’re all suddenly going to find that we can’t go to France, it’s going to be a gentle process.’
Many areas have seen recent falls in EU funding. The value of agricultural support is in decline and EU structural funds have been cut back significantly. The real danger to current recipients of funding from the EU institutions is that if we vote to remain the EU will further reduce their funding.
After protecting those now in receipt of EU funding, we will still have billions more to spend on our priorities. We propose that at least £5.5 billion of that be spent on the NHS by 2020, giving it a much-needed £100 million per week cash transfusion, and to use £1.7 billion to abolish VAT on household energy bills.
Overall, it is clear that if we Vote Leave we can take back control of British taxpayers’ money, protect funding for those who now get it from the EU, and improve the funding mechanisms so that money saved gets to the frontline. In particular it is clear that scientists and universities should expect that funding will be much more generous after we take back control and give them the priority they deserve, and which is so important for learning and scholarship as well as our future prosperity and security.
Yours sincerely
Julian Brazier
James Duddridge
George Eustice
Michael Gove
Chris Grayling
Boris Johnson
Penny Mordaunt
Priti Patel
Dominic Raab
Iain Duncan Smith
Desmond Swayne
Theresa Villiers
John Whittingdale"