Sir James Cleverly corrected the Commons record on Leaving the EU: Expenditure
The correction was made by letter from the Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, the hon. Member for Braintree (James Cleverly), and printed in Hansard's Written Corrections on 20 May 2019. The figure £2.4 billion in the original became £4.2 billion in the correction. Altogether 2 words differ between the two versions.
The question
17. How much Government Departments have spent on preparations for leaving the EU without a deal.
Original and corrected words
Struck through: original only. Bold: correction only.
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| Additional EU exit funding allocated by Her Majesty’s Treasury to Departments and devolved Administrations covers all scenarios. No-deal spending cannot readily be separated from deal spending, given the significant overlap in plans in many cases. Since 2016, the Treasury has allocated more than | Additional EU exit funding allocated by Her Majesty’s Treasury to Departments and devolved Administrations covers all scenarios. No-deal spending cannot readily be separated from deal spending, given the significant overlap in plans in many cases. Since 2016, the Treasury has allocated more than £4.2 billion of funding for all exit scenarios. |
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Receipt
| Read from | https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/debates/debate/B2D49DB5-DFC7-44ED-9B3B-F3FA9F8B9219.json |
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
| SHA-256 | f5fc41cce18444f983cdc304a3adff0fd4aa2f19a0f393bd30514d789add9cc0 |