Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the additional staff required by his Department in the event that the UK leaves the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.

The approximate total number of people working on EU exit across the MoJ is 110 MoJ EU exit programme includes work on both deal and no-deal scenarios in preparation for the UK exit from the EU.

Departments continually review workforce plans, reprioritise and assess changing needs, which includes identification and cessation of non-priority work where appropriate. We have accelerated our plans, and at the same time, the Civil Service as a whole is working to ensure that EU Exit

Implementation is carried out to high quality without impacting public service delivery across the whole of government.