Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of officials to be employed by his Department and (b) his Department's payroll in (i) 2018, (ii) 2019, (iii) 2020, (iv) 2021 and (v) 2022 as a result of the UK leaving EU.

As with all government departments, members of staff across the MoJ provide advice and analysis on EU Exit issues as required. Given the interactions between EU Exit work and the MoJ’s other priorities, it is not possible to provide an estimate of the number of officials to be employed for these financial years