Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate the Government has made of the number of non-UK EU citizens who will qualify for settled status by March 2019.

The Home Office has not made any direct estimates of the numbers of EU citizens who will qualify for settled status.

However we know that the estimated population of non-UK EU citizens resident in UK was a) 3.5m by Country of Birth (3.1m excluding Irish born); and b) 3.6m by Nationality (3.2m excluding Irish nationals), in the year ending 2016.*

*ONS, Population of the United Kingdom by Country of Birth and Nationality. Released: 24 August 2017, next release: 23 August 2018.