UK Government has granted more than £2 billion additional funding across 25 government departments for their Brexit preparations for all scenarios. Funding is for 2019/20 priority areas including borders, trade and security.
The five biggest Brexit preparation allocations confirmed today are received by Home Office (£480m), Defra (£410m), HMRC (£375m), BEIS (£190m) and the Department for International Trade (£128m).
• Home Office will use its funding to increase Border Force capability with hundreds of new officers, continue preparing the EU Settlement Scheme to offer settled status and prepare law enforcement national security preparations.
• In addition to taking back control of our waters, Defra will use its funding to deliver arrangements at the border and beyond to ensure uninterrupted trade in fish and fisheries products, chemicals, and agri-food.
• BEIS will deliver business stability for company law and audit, in addition to developing options for a UK Global Navigation Satellite System.
• HMRC will employ over 3,000 customer service and compliance staff in operational roles to handle increases in customs activity, ensuring trade continues to flow and revenue is protected. HMRC will also use its funding to deliver new technology and IT requirements at the border to ensure trade is as frictionless as possible.
• DIT will use its allocation to securing post-Brexit continuity for around 40 trade agreements covering over 70 countries, accounting for 12% of the UK’s total trade. They will also use their funding for work on future trade agreements around the world.
According to The Guardian today, Brexit deal hinges on final bid to win over DUP.
The Guardian writes that PM Theresa May is within 20 votes of winning a parliamentary majority for her Brexit deal if she can gain assurances from the EU that will persuade the Democratic Unionist party to back her deal, senior ministers and Tory MPs believe.
One cabinet minister said they believed the success of the prime minister’s deal hinged entirely on a last bid to win round the DUP. Another MP said they saw the Northern Irish party as the “British standard” who would give them the reassurance they needed to fall in behind.
With 100 days to go until Brexit, EU today presents its vision of a “managed no-deal” exit.
14 legal acts, at EU level, to cope with an abrupt Brexit and ensure a measure of continuity.
They cover flying rights, air safety certificates, derivatives contracts, time limits for customs declarations. Extremely limited measures are proposed for customs. Time limits are adjusted for customs declarations, but no other special waivers are included
No special contingency measures are outlined for medicines, data flows, veterinary checks, fisheries or non-financial services, even though these will ultimately probably need to be addressed by the union in a hard-exit scenario.
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