{"value":{"id":417596,"askingMemberId":4140,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2015-09-08T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2015-09-10T00:00:00","uin":"9498","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department are engaged in research into the effects of the UK leaving the EU.","answeringBodyId":11,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Defence","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":77,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2015-09-15T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Government is focused on delivering a successful renegotiation: it believes it can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU and campaigning to keep the UK in the EU on that basis.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Defence and Ministry of Defence officials regularly meet with a range of external organisations to discuss the Government's objectives in Europe. Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published quarterly at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Ministerial+meetings+with+external+organisations.</p><p> </p><p>Government Departments are appropriately resourced to support the Government's priorities in Europe.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Ministry of Defence: UK Membership of EU","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/417596","method":"GET"}]}