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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost of implementing new IT systems for (a) implementing the UK’s chemical regulatory regime and (b) control and enforcement activities in English fishing waters in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

As we prepare to leave the EU, we will undertake all the necessary measures to build or strengthen IT systems to accommodate the changes needed, for example to support the UK’s chemical regulatory regime and control and enforcement activities in English fishing waters.

HM Treasury has allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations for EU exit preparations so far. All UK Government spend is subject to HM Treasury spending controls and value for money criteria and is publically available in annual reports and accounts.