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<p>The UK Government remains focussed on ensuring a smooth and orderly withdrawal
from the EU with a deal as soon as possible</p><p>However, as a responsible government,
we’ve been preparing to minimise any disruption in the event of no deal for nearly
three years. The Home Office has been planning and preparing for a no deal scenario
ensuring we have contingency plans in place across areas including law enforcement,
passport operations and the border. <br> <br>We have taken extensive steps to provide
businesses and citizens with advice on helping them mitigate the potential impacts
of a no deal exit. When necessary we will continue to update our advice on gov.uk/euexit
on how people should prepare</p><p>During the extension period, to underpin our ability
to respond in a no deal scenario, we are working closely with operational partners
to develop our response to a range of theoretical scenarios</p><p>The Treasury has
allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to departments and Devolved Administrations
for EU exit preparations so far. This breaks down as £412m over the spending review
period for the Department for Exiting the European Union, Department for International
Trade and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Autumn Statement 2016); £286m of
additional funding for 2017/18 (a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary
Estimates 2017/18); over £1.5 billion for 2018/19 (Supplementary Estimates 2018/19);
and over £2 billion for 2019/20 (Main Estimates 2019/20). This funding is to cover
all exit scenarios and is in addition to departmental efforts to reprioritise from
business as usual toward preparations for the UK’s departure from the EU. Work on
no-deal exit preparations cannot be readily separated from other EU exit work, given
the significant overlap in plans in many cases.</p>
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