Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office plans write to all non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK since before 1 January 1973 to confirm that they hold settled status in the UK.

We have launched a targeted communications campaign to maximise awareness and reassure EU citizens of our commitment to protect their rights and entitlements.

This includes encouraging such citizens to apply under the EU settlement scheme when it opens and alerting those who may have previously acquired indefinite leave to remain, including those resident in the UK before 1973, to exchange it for the new settled status.