Asked by: Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat - Twickenham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money his Department has allocated for preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal to date; how much of that funding has been made by way of ministerial direction; and for what functions that funding has been allocated.
Answered by Anne Milton
Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) 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 & Commonwealth Office at Autumn Statement 2016.
£286 million of additional funding for 2017/18 (a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary Estimates 2017/18 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf.)
Over £1.5 billion of additional funding for 2018/19. A full breakdown of which can be found in my right hon. Friend, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury's Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13 March (available at: https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/.)
Over £2 billion of additional funding for 2019/20. A full breakdown of the allocations can be found in my right hon. Friend, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury's Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS1205, laid on the 18 December (available at: https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-12-18/HCWS1205/.)