Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total cost will be of developing the 12 critical IT systems required at the border after the UK has left the EU.

While we remain confident that we will secure a positive and mutually beneficial deal with the EU, there remain a number of border-related projects that have to be delivered in the unlikely event of no deal being agreed. Some of these projects were initiated before the UK decided to leave and so are not exclusively EU exit related.

The information requested is not held centrally, however, the 12 border-related projects listed in the NAO report are all at different stages of development with a number part of wider programmes. As such, it would not be possible to attach a single overarching cost at this time.