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<p>Her Majesty's 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><p> </p><ul><li>£412 million of additional funding over the spending
review period for the Department for Exiting the European Union, Department for International
Trade and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at Autumn Statement 2016.</li></ul><p>
</p><ul><li>£286 million of additional funding for 2017-18 (a full breakdown of which
can be found in Supplementary Estimates 2017-18).</li></ul><p><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></p><p>
</p><ul><li>Over £1.5 billion of additional funding for 2018-19. A full breakdown
of the allocations can be found in the Chief Secretary's Written Ministerial Statement,
HCWS540, released on 13 March 2018.</li></ul><p><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></p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Over £2 billion of additional funding
for 2019-20. A full breakdown of the allocations can be found in the Chief Secretary's
Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS1205, released on 18 December 2018.</li></ul><p><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></p><p>
</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> </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 these preparations are kept under constant review.</p><p>
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