The UK’s Department of Exiting the European Union has awarded a contract worth £1.5m to consulting giant McKinsey to help it coordinate the government’s approach to Brexit, according to people familiar with the matter.

McKinsey will be helping the UK’s Brexit minister David Davis, and his advisers, to collate more than 700 Brexit-related plans that have been formulated by government departments in the year since the June 2016 referendum. The firm will have a planning role, and will not provide policy advice.