Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask Her Majesty's Government which departments were consulted on cross-departmental Brexit studies; and which ones gave input.

The Government is undertaking a wide range of analysis and preparatory work to support our EU exit negotiations and preparations. This analysis is a cross-Whitehall exercise, which has not been led by any single Department.

On the analysis subject to the recent Humble Address, as with all the Government’s work on EU exit, DExEU plays a coordinating role, working with the relevant Departments across Whitehall. The modelling work leveraged the best expertise from each department.

This analysis has only recently started to be shown to Ministers on the European Union Exit and Trade (Strategy and Negotiations) sub-Committee. This has been in order to get their input and feedback on how this analysis can be improved.