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<p>The department has been continually assessing the resourcing levels required to
prepare for EU Exit across all possible scenarios, developing contingency plans in
line with government policy. It is not possible to provide the number of staff who
have been moved from normal duties. This is because staff are generally engaged across
a range of workstreams, which will include business as usual activity as well as EU
Exit preparations, across all scenarios.</p><p>To release existing capacity on to
specialist roles to support the UK’s exit from the EU in an orderly manner, the Home
Office took a number of reprioritisation choices in early 2019 to release capacity
on to critical EU Exit roles. This was undertaken as part of a cross-government reprioritisation
exercise.</p><p>As a general principle, reprioritisation decisions within the Home
Office focussed on areas of its domestic work which could be scaled back or slowed,
thus alleviating the need to halt these areas of work in their entirety whilst fulfilling
the need to release the required numbers of specialist resource on to critical EU
Exit roles.</p><p>To minimise the overall demand for internal reprioritisation, the
Home Office also sought to secure resource through the Cabinet Office clearing hub,
a government-wide initiative set up to meet the demands of EU Exit through cross-departmental
redeployment of resource across policy and operational delivery roles.</p>
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