Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to include the EU within the Youth Mobility Scheme.

We remain committed to expanding our Youth Mobility Scheme to more nations, including member states of the EU.

Each Youth Mobility Scheme is subject to a bilateral, reciprocal agreement which also provides benefit to UK Nationals, with the detail negotiated and agreed between the relevant parties. We will not add nations unilaterally in the absence of such an agreement.