PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Education: Brexit (19 December 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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)

Her Majesty’s Treasury has allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This includes;

• £412 million of additional funding over the spending review period for the Department for Exiting the European Union, Department for International Trade and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office at Autumn Statement 2016;
• £286 million of additional funding for 2017-18, a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary Estimates 2017-18 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf, and;
• Over £1.5 billion of additional funding for 2018-19. A full breakdown of which can be found in my right hon. Friend, the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13 March 2018, available at: https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/.

A breakdown of the more recent allocations (for 2019-20) can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS1205, laid on the 18 December 2018 at: https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-12-18/HCWS1205/.

Answered by:
Anne Milton (Independent)
8 January 2019