Department of Health and Social Care: Brexit
(asked on 8th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Written Statement of 13 March 2018 on Spring Statement, HCWS540, how much of that funding he has allocated to (a) programmes, (b) administration and (c) staffing in his Department.
HM Treasury has allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the devolved administrations for European Union exit preparations so far. This breaks down as:
- £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 and 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 which is available at the following link:
- Over £1.5 billion of additional funding for 2018-19. A full breakdown of which can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on 13 March 2018.
The Department was allocated £21.1 million for costs arising as the United Kingdom leave the EU in the Spring Statement 2018. The final breakdown between programme and administration (including staffing) spend will be confirmed in the Supplementary Estimates.