Government Publishes Operation Yellowhammer Plans

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Having claimed that the leaked documents a month ago were "outdated", they've now made them publicly available:






Rosamund Urwin, who published the leaked version in the Sunday Times, tweeted tonight:

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Rosamund Urwin @RosamundUrwin

What's different about the new Yellowhammer document that the government has just published compared with the one I got hold of last month? The heading.

What did the version I had say? BASE SCENARIO

Now what does the new one say? HMG Reasonable Worst Case Planning Assumptions

You'll notice there a heavy redaction of paragraph 15 above. Urwin, who saw an unredacted version, tweeted that it read:

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Rosamund Urwin @RosamundUrwin

"15. Facing EU tariffs makes petrol exports to the EU uncompetitive. Industry had plans to mitigate the impact on refinery margins and profitability but UK Government policy to set petrol import tariffs at 0% inadvertently undermines these plans." [More to come]

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Rosamund Urwin @RosamundUrwin

"This leads to significant financial losses and announcement of two refinery closures (and transition to import terminals) and direct job losses (about 2000). (2/3)

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Resulting strike action at refineries would lead to disruptions to fuel availability for 1-2 weeks in the regions directly supplied by the refineries." (3/3)

You can download the assessment from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-humble-address-motion

Direct link to full PDF: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/831199/20190802_Latest_Yellowhammer_Planning_assumptions_CDL.pdf