Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department are engaged in research into the effects of the UK leaving the EU.

The Government is focused on delivering a successful renegotiation: it believes it can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU and campaigning to keep the UK in the EU on that basis.

The Secretary of State for Defence and Ministry of Defence officials regularly meet with a range of external organisations to discuss the Government's objectives in Europe. Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published quarterly at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Ministerial+meetings+with+external+organisations.

Government Departments are appropriately resourced to support the Government's priorities in Europe.