Exiting the European Union

Pat McFadden Excerpts
Monday 20th May 2019

(5 years, 6 months ago)

Ministerial Corrections
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The following is an extract from Exiting the European Union questions on Thursday 16 May 2019.
Pat McFadden Portrait Mr McFadden
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17. How much Government Departments have spent on preparations for leaving the EU without a deal.

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Additional EU exit funding allocated by Her Majesty’s Treasury to Departments and devolved Administrations covers all scenarios. No-deal spending cannot readily be separated from deal spending, given the significant overlap in plans in many cases. Since 2016, the Treasury has allocated more than £2.4 billion of funding for all exit scenarios.

[Official Report, 16 May 2019, Vol. 660, c. 358.]

Letter of correction from the Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, the hon. Member for Braintree (James Cleverly):

An error has been identified in my response to the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden).

The correct response should have been: