Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what annual budget has been allocated to the HM Revenue and Customs Border Planning Group.

The Border Planning Group is a cross-Whitehall group of senior officials set up by Permanent Secretaries. The role of the Border Planning Group is to provide oversight of and assurance of departmental planning for border related issues arising from leaving the EU. The Border Coordination Team within HMRC supports the work of the Border Planning Group and reports into it. The budget for this team for 2017-18 is £2.5m. There are a large number of different teams across Government departments (including other teams in HMRC) working on border related EU exit matters for which funding will be within individual departmental budgets.