Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how the £3 billion announced in the Budget Statement to support preparations for exiting the EU will be allocated to support those preparations; and what the process of allocating those funds will be.

HM Treasury will work with departments and the Department for Exiting the European Union over the coming weeks to refine estimates of departmental requirements for 18/19 and will allocate funding accordingly in early 2018. Departmental allocations for 19/20 will be agreed at a later date, when there is more certainty on the status of our future relationship with the European Union. Departmental allocations from the Reserve will be set out at Supplementary Estimates in the relevant year as is usual.