Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's EU Settlement Scheme launched on 28 August 2018, what the timeframe is for the (a) conclusion of and (b) publication of an assessment of the effectiveness of that pilot scheme.

From 28 August we commenced our first private beta phase of the EU Settlement Scheme to prove some of the functionality and processes in a live environment.

We will use the learning from this phase to improve our processes ahead of further phased roll outs to all eligible EU citizens and their non-EU citizen family members. Feedback from users so far has been very positive.

We will provide further details in due course of these subsequent phases, and we will continue to update Parliament as part of that process.