Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of rough sleeping migrants from the European Economic Area that will be deported as a result of changes to immigration rules.

The new Immigration Rules, which make provision for the refusal or cancellation of permission to stay in the UK on the basis of rough sleeping, will not apply to those with (or eligible for) leave granted under the EU Settlement Scheme or other cohorts protected by the Withdrawal Agreement.

The provision in the immigration rules will be used as a last resort where a person repeatedly engages in anti-social behaviour and refuses offers of support. If we cancel a person’s permission to stay in the UK we will ask them to leave voluntarily with government support.