Sources familiar with EU-UK Brexit talks confirmed that this idea had been on the agenda of talks, the Guardian newspaper reported.
"It would solve a lot of problems and mean there is no hole [in the EU budget] in 2019-2020," a source told the newspaper.
The United Kingdom's exit from the European Union formally began in March. According to article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the United Kingdom has two years to complete the negotiations, and must leave the European Union on March 29, 2019.
In return, London could receive $14.6 billion, mostly in agriculture subsidies and aid for UK's poorer regions.
Such a scenario may provoke hardline eurosceptic accusations against the UK government, which has said that London will stop making annual contributions to EU budget after Brexit.
At the same time, the Conservative Party's pre-election manifesto prescribed that it would be reasonable to make contributions into specific EU programs.
