{"value":{"id":1028570,"askingMemberId":4084,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2018-12-19T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2019-01-07T00:00:00","uin":"203892","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to his Department for financial year 2018-19 for planning for the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and how much of that funding has been spent.","answeringBodyId":11,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Defence","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1544,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2019-01-11T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Her Majesty's Treasury has already allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to Departments and the devolved administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This includes the £1.5 billion of additional funding HM Treasury announced at Autumn Budget 2017 for 2018/19. A full breakdown of how this was allocated to Departments can be found in the Chief Secretary's Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on 13 March 2018.</p><p>(https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/).</p><p>The Ministry of Defence has been allocated £12.7 million in 2018-19 for essential EU exit preparations. As with all HMT Reserve funding, finalised allocations will be confirmed at Supplementary Estimates 2018-19 in early 2019.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":1,"heading":"Ministry of Defence: Brexit","attachments":[{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/1028570/original/20180313_HCWS540_Spring_Statement.docx","title":"HCWS540 - Spring Statement","fileType":"docx","fileSizeBytes":24509}],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1028570","method":"GET"}]}