Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the (a) formal and (b) informal reporting lines are between staff of his Department and HM Treasury.

Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) staff do not report to HM Treasury, or any other department. Our staff work in close collaboration with departments across Whitehall to co-ordinate the Government’s preparations for leaving the EU.

DExEU works closely with HM Treasury as it fulfils its rule to coordinate Government preparations for EU exit, including domestic preparations in both a deal and a no deal scenario, all of the necessary legislation and preparations for the negotiations to implement the detail of the Future Framework.