Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they anticipate to be the total cost of consultants employed in connection with the UK's negotiations to leave the EU in (1) 2016–17, and (2) 2017–18.

The Department for Exiting the European Union has used the services of a number of consulting firms to help with departmental set-up and planning. The Departmental budget will be published in due course.