Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much his Department plans to spend on projects relating to the UK leaving the EU in the next five years; and if he will list the projects to which that funding has been assigned.

HM Treasury has already allocated departments nearly £700 million to prepare for EU Exit: £412 million for DIT, FCO and DExEU over the parliament at Autumn Statement 2016 and nearly £300 million across a number of departments from the Reserve in 2017-18.

At Autumn Budget 2017 HM Treasury made another £3 billion of additional funding available over 2018-19 and 2019-20 – £1.5 billion in each year. We have not bid for any of this funding to date.

Departmental allocations for 2019-20 will be agreed later on in the year and decisions on funding in 2020-21 and beyond will be decided at the next Spending Review. This is because requirements in these years will be heavily affected by what is agreed in our negotiations with the EU.