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Jim Pickard
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took a week’s holiday and have returned to loads of headlines about £4bn wasted on No Deal Brexit: bear in mind that figure is ALL government spending on Brexit preparations whether deal or No Deal, here’s IFG breakdown

instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/…
someone has to be that tedious pedant
Latest from Number 10:

£4.2bn is the total spending on ALL Brexit preparations (deal or No-deal) for 2016-2020.

Of that £2bn was allocated for 2019/20, which has only just started.

So fair to say that so far the government has spent just over £2.2bn on ALL Brexit planning.
and to be clear: officials are unable to split out how much of that figure is No Deal vs Deal
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some of you may remember the £33m payment by the Department for Transport to Eurotunnel to settle claims it had been unfairly excluded from plans to keep cross-channel routes open in the event of a no-deal Brexit
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