Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what amount they have budgeted to cover the total cost of the UK’s departure from the EU, including the end of the transition period.

HM Treasury has made available £9.7 billion of additional funding to support EU Exit and the Transition in any outcome between financial years 2016-17 and 2020-21. As part of this funding, HM Treasury has made available £3.6 billion of additional funding in 2020-21. This includes £2 billion of allocations made at Spending Round 2019 as well as more recent allocations, such as the additional £705 million of border funding announced in July 2020 to support HMRC and other departments’ delivery of new border arrangements. All funding for 2020-21 will be confirmed at Supplementary Estimates 2020, to be published in the new year.

Spending Review 2020 also allocates over £2 billion for 2021-22 to support departments following the end of the Transition. This includes £1 billion for HMRC to reform and enhance the UK customs system and £363 million for the Home Office to maintain law enforcement cooperation with EU member states and recruit Border Force officers to deliver transit customs arrangements.