Wes Streeting – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-10-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the cost of negotiations with the EU in the two years after Article 50 is invoked.

Mr Robin Walker

Detailed work is underway to establish the budget required to fulfil the department’s responsibilities over the period of the Spending Review. The budget will be set out to the House of Commons and approved as part of the Supplementary Estimates in the new year, as is standard practice.