Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2019 to Question 207564 on Scotland Office: Brexit, for what reason his Department holds no estimate of what it has spent on no deal preparations, which cannot readily be separated from other EU exit and devolution functions in general.

As part of preparations for a successful EU exit, the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland has been allocated additional EU exit funding. OSSS officials are working across a range of areas (including but not limited to no deal preparations), in their EU exit work. As no deal preparations form part of the broader EU exit work of the department, it is not possible to separate how much has been spent only on no deal preparations.