Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish the findings of the second phase of the testing of settled status applications which includes testing with Roma applicants.

As set out in the Immigration Rules, the second phase of the private beta testing is open to workers in the health and social care sector across the country, as well as employees of all institutions classified as a Higher Education Institution listed on the Tier 4 sponsor register. This phase will also include some vulnerable individuals being supported by a small number of local authorities and civil society organisations.

We will provide further details in due course of the planned phased implementation of the scheme, and we will continue to update Parliament as part of that process. The second phase of this private beta testing runs from 1 November to 21 December.