Roles of Government Departments Involved in the Production of Studies on the Impact of Brexit

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Dear HM Revenue and Customs,

Roles of Government Departments Involved in the Production of Studies on the Impact of Brexit

I refer to my FoI request to the DExEU: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

And their response: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

In the response to Item 5a, DExEU says: “We can confirm that DExEU does not hold this information. This exercise relied on expertise and involvement from across Government, and we are as such unable to ascertain the effort in days that went into producing these studies.”

I now have the following questions of your department. I would be grateful if you would answer these questions on behalf of your department.

1 Did your department have any role in the production of any of the studies referred to in the above referenced FoI request and response from DExEU? Please note, since my original FoI request, DExEU has identified the sectors covered by the studies.

2 If your department did have a role, what was that role?

3 If you did have a role, what was the total amount of effort (in person days) expended by civil servants or department/agency-supervised government contractors on all of the studies to which you contributed?

4 If you did have a role, was any of the work subcontracted to external service providers under fixed-price or time/materials terms? If so, please provide details of these contracts including the supplier, the value and the contracting route?

5 Please identify the studies to which you contributed?

Thank you for your help.

Yours faithfully,

Shaun Davey

foi.team@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk on behalf of FOI Team,

Our ref: FOI2017/01979

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Dear Mr Davey,

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November 2017.

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HMRC Freedom of Information Team