The Department for Exiting the European Union already has an annual budget of £1.5 billion and a staff of over 200 officials, but that is just the start of it.
The European Chemicals Agency has confirmed that 6000 'substance registrations' by UK companies will be void after Brexit. Companies will need to re-register using an EU proxy.
60% of our chemical exports go to the EU, but that isn't the real concern - the UK will still be a member of the EU in May 2018 (the deadline for substance registration), and companies are legally required to register anything they produce, whether for export or not.
To help confuse matters, the UK government says that they will create their own post-Brexit register.
Meanwhile, the Home Office has a lot of extra work in prospect - officials want the same deportation rules to apply to EU citizens and non-EU post-Brexit. In particular that means that anyone sentenced to more than 12 months in prison must be deported: 6,171 offenders were deported last year, at a cost of £850 million. If the new rules were already in place then the Home Office would have had to deport around 26,000 EU citizens too - costing another £3.6 billion.
Not to mention concerns about our nuclear reactors and medical treatments using radionucleotides, as Mrs May wishes to exit Euratom as well as the EU.
Let us hope that DEXEU are keeping up.
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