A SERIES of papers on a no-deal Brexit is to be published by civil servants from next week setting out how the disruption will impact on daily life in the UK and how the UK Government is preparing to cope.

The list will cover more than 80 specific subjects including air services and aviation safety, broadcasting, customs, consumer protections, financial services, road haulage and the rights of EU nationals, according to a provisional schedule leaked today.

The documents – compiled from departments across Whitehall – underlines the scope of the potential impact to every day living Britain crashes out of the European Union next March without a withdrawal agreement or transition period.

Their publication comes just weeks after leading food academics told The National that rationing may have to be introduced for the first time since the post second world war era because of likely shortages if the UK crashes out without a deal.

Under current plans, the no-deal reports will be published in batches, starting as early as next week and running through September, although the timetable could change.

Theresa May told a parliamentary committee last month there would be around 70 “technical notifications” published to advise individuals and businesses on how to prepare for a no-deal Brexit.

But the number of documents to be published appears to have increased, according to the list seen by BuzzFeed News. The subjects they will cover are:

  • Air services
  • Animal breeding
  • Aviation safety
  • Aviation security
  • Batch testing of medicine
  • Blood safety
  • Broadcasting
  • Chemicals regulation
  • Civil judicial cooperation
  • Civil nuclear
  • Climate
  • Commercial road haulage
  • Common Travel Area
  • Company law
  • Competition
  • Consumer protection
  • Cross-border gas trading
  • Customs and borders
  • Data Driver licensing
  • Drugs
  • e-Commerce and geo-blocking
  • Electricity trading
  • Environmental standards
  • Equine movements
  • Erasmus
  • EU citizens in the UK
  • EU programmes and structural funds
  • EU space programmes
  • European regional development fund
  • European social fund
  • Export control regulation
  • Fertilisers
  • Financial services
  • Firearms
  • Fisheries, fish and seafood
  • Fluorinated gases and Ozone depleting substances
  • Food labelling
  • Genetically modified organisms
  • Geographical indicators
  • Health and identification marks for products of animal origin
  • Horizon 2020
  • Imports of food and feed
  • Insolvency
  • Intellectual property
  • Life sciences
  • Live animals and animal products
  • Maritime security
  • Motor insurance
  • New car and van CO2 emissions
  • NGOs
  • Nuclear research
  • Objects of cultural interest
  • Oil and gas
  • Organic food production
  • Organs, tissue, and cells
  • Passports
  • Payments to farmers
  • Pesticides regulations
  • Pet travel
  • Plants and seeds
  • Procurement
  • Product regulation
  • Registration of veterinary medicines
  • Renewable electricity issues
  • Rural Development Programme for England
  • Seafarer certification
  • Services
  • State aid
  • Telecoms
  • Timber trade
  • Tobacco
  • Trade agreements continuity
  • Trade in endangered species
  • Trade remedies
  • Trans-European energy infrastructure
  • UK citizens in the EU
  • UK LIFE projects
  • UK trade tariff
  • Upholding industrial emissions
  • VAT
  • Vehicle standards
  • Veterinary medicine products
  • Workplace rights

The reports are the product of a cross-Whitehall initiative ordered by the former Brexit secretary David Davis to ensure that the UK was prepared to leave the EU without a deal in the event that the Brexit negotiations broke down – and that its preparedness was visible.

Around half of the reports relate to matters overseen by either the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) or the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The Department for Transport also accounts for a significant number of the matters covered.

Some of the most challenging issues, relating to customs and borders, fall under the umbrella of HMRC.

Brexit hardliners have repeatedly accused the government of scaremongering when it has released materials to bolster its arguments for a softer Brexit.

Earlier this year a no-deal scenario drawn up by the Government said Britain will be hit by shortages of medicine, fuel and food within a fortnight if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, according to a scenario drawn up by DExEU. Supermarkets and facilities in Scotland and Cornwall, would be the hardest hit.

The publication of the reports come at a delicate time in the Brexit process. The chances of a no-deal have increased since May’s Chequers agreement last month and the opposition it provoked from arch Brexiteers such as former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and former Brexit Secretary David Davis who stormed out of the Cabinet in protest.

Credit rating agency Fitch yesterday scaled back its expectations of the UK reaching an orderly transition deal with the EU on Brexit, warning that “an acrimonious and disruptive no-deal Brexit is a material and growing possibility”. Since Britain’s vote to leave the EU in June 2016, the leading credit rating agencies have anticipated that an orderly departure, including a transition period, was the most likely outcome. However Fitch said yesterday that this was no longer the case, in its view. “An intensification of political divisions within the UK and slow progress in negotiations with the EU means there is such a wide range of potential Brexit outcomes that no individual scenario has a high probability,” Fitch said in a note that did not constitute an official rating action. “We no longer believe it is appropriate to identify a specific base case.”

Latvia’s foreign minister recently put the odds at 50:50 for a no deal while UK international trade secretary, Liam Fox, sees the chances of a no deal at 60%. Bank of England governor Mark Carney has described the possibility of a no-deal Brexit as "uncomfortably high."

A DExEU spokesperson said: “We don't comment on leaks or speculation. However, as we've already made clear, individual departments are preparing specific technical notices to help citizens, businesses and consumers to prepare for March 2019 in the unlikely event of a no-deal scenario. This is part of our preparatory work that has been underway for the past two years.

"These will be published in August and September and will be available on gov.uk in a centralised location that is easy for people to access and use. The secretary of state for exiting the EU [Dominic Raab] and the prime minister confirmed this in July.”