Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit

(asked on 18th October 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many staff from the Ministry of Defence are working in his Department to assist with preparations for the scenario of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.


Answered by
Jake Berry Portrait
Jake Berry
This question was answered on 28th October 2019

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has requested that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) provide a total of 167 civilian staff to help resource our planned preparations and response for a no deal exit. Civilian MOD staff are provided on temporary detachment. In addition MOD will provide up to 160 military personnel to act as Government Liaison Officers (GLOs). GLOs will work alongside and support Local Resilience Forums and will only be deployed to areas if and where required.

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