Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial provision has been made across Government for the period after March 2019 in the event that no deal is reached during negotiations between the UK and the EU in (a) the current financial year and (b) each of the next two financial years.

The Treasury has committed over £250 million of additional spending in 2017-18 to prepare for Brexit from the Reserve. Departmental allocations will be set out at Supplementary Estimates in the usual way. This is in addition to the £412m of additional funding over the parliament announced at Autumn Statement 2016 for the Department of International Trade, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Exiting the European Union. That means the government has allocated over half a billion pounds so far in funding to ensure a successful exit from the EU. An update on Brexit spending will also be provided at Autumn Budget.