Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total cost to the public purse for his Department’s work preparing for the UK to leave the EU has been since 23 June 2016.

HM Treasury has allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations for preparations for leaving the EU so far. This breaks down as:

• £412m 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.

• £286m of additional funding for 2017/18, a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary Estimates 2017/18:

  https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf.

• Over £1.5bn of additional funding for 2018/19, a full breakdown of which can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March: https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/.