Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) applications and (b) different individual applicants there have been to the EU Settlement Scheme.

There have been more than three million applications to the EU Settlement Scheme according to the latest internal management information.

The milestone was reached less than a year after the scheme was fully launched to the public, with more than 2.7 million people already granted status. The Home Office publishes regular statistics relating to the EU Settlement scheme on a monthly basis and more detailed statistics each quarter, the latest edition being released 6^th February,

The EU Settlement Scheme is designed to make it straightforward for EU citizens and their family members to continue living in the UK after 30 June 2021.

To apply they only need to complete three key steps – prove their identity, show that they live in the UK and declare any criminal convictions.

Our initial analysis of applications suggest that repeat applications currently represent less than two per cent of applications. This is a small percentage of the over 3 million applications we have received. We will continue to investigate this number and plan to report further as part of our regular statistical publications.