Department for Education: Brexit

(asked on 25th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 1st May 2019

HM Treasury has allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations for EU 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.

This funding is to cover all exit scenarios and is in addition to departmental efforts to reprioritise from business as usual toward preparations for the UK’s departure from the EU.

Work on no-deal exit preparations cannot be readily separated from other EU exit work. The department is preparing for all eventualities and the resources available to support preparations are kept under constant review.

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