Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether the Government plans to make it its policy not to leave the EU without a deal.

It remains Government policy to leave the EU with a deal as soon as possible. We do not want to leave the EU without a deal and it is also clear that there is no Parliamentary majority for pursuing this outcome. However ‘no deal’ remains the legal default on 31 October and we continue to prepare for such a scenario.