Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many hours have staff in his Department spent in each of the last 12 months on preparations in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

DFID operates a flexible working policy and staff hours worked are not tracked centrally by DFID HR in line with DFID policy. As such the information required to answer this question would require collation of individual records held at team level and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.