Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department's preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

Of the £71.1 million funding the Department has been allocated for 2018/19 and 2019/20 for preparations for European Union exit, we are unable to provide a breakdown of the amount of funding allocated to ‘no deal’ preparations specifically, as this cannot be separated from EU exit work as a whole across the Department.