PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Brexit (19 December 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 preparations for leaving the EU 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 13 March 2018. This money will be paid out in Supplementary Estimates 18/19 later this financial year:

https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/

Defra is effectively deploying its allocated funding to prepare and deliver its ambitious programme of EU departure activities in readiness for all scenarios.

Answered by:
David Rutley (Conservative)
11 January 2019