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date	18/12/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Tourism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what contingency plans his Department has considered for compensating (a) tour operators, (b) airlines and (c) UK travellers for consequential losses in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	203228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Ministers regularly meet with representatives from the aviation industry to discuss the implications of EU exit on aviation, including safety, and to ensure their requirements are factored into preparations.</p><p> </p><p>We are confident of agreeing our future partnership with the EU, including on aviation, but we have a duty to plan for the alternative. The Department’s aviation technical notices and the EU’s published plans for aviation contingency preparations, updated with proposed EU regulations on 19 December, clearly demonstrate that, in the unlikely event of no deal, both sides are committed to maintaining connectivity.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government has introduced legislation to ensure that the UK exits the EU with maximum certainty and continuity - the European Union (Withdrawal) Act will convert EU law as it stands at the moment of exit into domestic law, meaning that the same rules and laws will apply on the day after exit as on the day before.</p><p> </p><p>This means that after exit the same safety rules will continue to apply. The UK is committed to maintaining current levels of safety and will continue to strive to improve on these after leaving the EU. Being outside the EU will not change the UK’s approach to aviation safety.</p><p> </p><p>The SI, the draft Air Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018, that was laid before Parliament in draft on 28 November, makes the changes needed to ensure that retained EU legislation on air passenger rights continues to function correctly under any scenario. This will help to provide continuity and certainty to industry and consumers.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling grouped question UIN 203229 question first answered 07/01/2019 17:49:08 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Lord Grayling
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1027621

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received from the travel industry on aviation safety in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	203229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Ministers regularly meet with representatives from the aviation industry to discuss the implications of EU exit on aviation, including safety, and to ensure their requirements are factored into preparations.</p><p> </p><p>We are confident of agreeing our future partnership with the EU, including on aviation, but we have a duty to plan for the alternative. The Department’s aviation technical notices and the EU’s published plans for aviation contingency preparations, updated with proposed EU regulations on 19 December, clearly demonstrate that, in the unlikely event of no deal, both sides are committed to maintaining connectivity.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government has introduced legislation to ensure that the UK exits the EU with maximum certainty and continuity - the European Union (Withdrawal) Act will convert EU law as it stands at the moment of exit into domestic law, meaning that the same rules and laws will apply on the day after exit as on the day before.</p><p> </p><p>This means that after exit the same safety rules will continue to apply. The UK is committed to maintaining current levels of safety and will continue to strive to improve on these after leaving the EU. Being outside the EU will not change the UK’s approach to aviation safety.</p><p> </p><p>The SI, the draft Air Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018, that was laid before Parliament in draft on 28 November, makes the changes needed to ensure that retained EU legislation on air passenger rights continues to function correctly under any scenario. This will help to provide continuity and certainty to industry and consumers.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling grouped question UIN 203228 question first answered 07/01/2019 17:49:08 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Lord Grayling
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1041751

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date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) funding allocated by his Department for preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal and (b) proportion of that funding which has been allocated by ministerial direction; and for what functions that funding has been allocated.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	208748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The funding provided by HMT is in addition to my department’s efforts to reprioritise from business as usual toward preparations for the UK’s departure from the EU. We are required to achieve value for money as part of receiving these additional funds, in line with the guidance set out in Managing Public Money. My Department spent a total of £6.6m between 2016/17 and 2017/18 preparing for all EU Exit scenarios. We were allocated up to £76.8m for EU Exit preparations in this financial year for all scenarios and £15.8m of this funding has been spent so far.</p><p> </p><p>Bernadette Kelly, the accounting officer for the Department for Transport, sought a written ministerial direction on 7th February 2018 for expenditure on EU Exit preparations. The details can be found here</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-preparations-dft-ministerial-direction. This covered activity related to the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Bill in advance of the relevant supporting legislation receiving Royal Assent. The Bill subsequently received Royal Assent on 19<sup>th</sup> July 2018 and is now an Act of Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 21/01/2019 17:54:44 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Lord Grayling
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1050455

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2019 to Question 208748 on Department for Transport: Brexit, how much of the £101 million allocated to his Department for Brexit preparations in 2018-19 and 2019-20 has been allocated to preparing for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	213897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury has allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This breaks down as:</p><ul><li>£412m of additional funding over the spending review period for the Department for Exiting the European Union, Department for International Trade and the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office at Autumn Statement 2016.</li><li>£286m of additional funding for 17/18 (a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary Estimates 17/18: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf.)</li><li>Over £1.5bn of additional funding for 18/19. A full breakdown of the allocations can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March (https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/)</li><li>Over £2bn of additional funding for 19/20. A full breakdown of the allocations can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS1205, laid on the 18th December (https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-12-18/HCWS1205/)</li></ul><p>This funding is in addition to my department’s efforts to reprioritise from business as usual toward preparations for the UK’s departure from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>Of the funding allocated from HM Treasury for the financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20, my Department has currently allocated £36.4m to prepare specifically for a no deal. As we further our preparations for EU Exit, we may allocate additional resources for no deal contingencies.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 04/02/2019 16:46:23 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Lord Grayling
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable