PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cabinet Office: Brexit (19 December 2018)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to his Department for financial year 2018-19 for planning for the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and how much of that funding has been spent.

Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)

HM Treasury has already allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to departments and the devolved administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This includes the £1.5 billion of additional funding HM Treasury announced at Autumn Budget 2017 for 2018/19.

A full breakdown of how this was allocated to departments can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March

(https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-

statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/).

This money will be paid out in Supplementary Estimates 18/19 later this financial year.

Between April 2018 and December 2018, the Cabinet Office spent £32.5m on activities associated with preparations to leave the European Union.

Answered by:
Chloe Smith (Conservative)
17 January 2019