Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's preparations for the UK leaving the EU with (a) an agreement on future partnership and (b) no agreement with the EU; and if he will make a statement.

Following the referendum in June 2016 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to make rigorous preparations for a range of possible outcomes from the UK’s negotiations with the EU.