Claim: The £1.9 billion the government has spent on preparing for no deal so far could pay the salaries of around 85,000 nurses, 50,000 secondary school teachers or 49,000 police constables.
Fact-check: What's the cost of preparing for Brexit? - Full Fact
Verdict: the government hasn't said how much of the government's additional brexit funding is going to no deal preparations specifically. that would pay the salaries of roughly this many staff, but it doesn't tell us anything useful as these workers would cost more to employ than their salaries alone.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joseph O'Leary
Date published: 2019-01-30T00:00:00