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<p>HM Treasury has allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to departments
and the Devolved Administrations for EU exit preparations so far.</p><p>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.</p><p>Work
on no-deal exit preparations cannot be readily separated from other EU exit work.
The Department is preparing for all eventualities and the resources available to support
preparations are kept under constant review.</p><p>This expenditure breaks down as:</p><p>
</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
& 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).
(<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf</a>)</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 2018. (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/"
target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/</a>)</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 2018. (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-12-18/HCWS1205/"
target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-12-18/HCWS1205/</a>)</li></ul>
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