Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions his Department has had with the Home Office to ensure that non-UK EU residents in the process of seeking settled status will be able to access local authority-provided services while they are waiting for conferment of that status.

My Department continues to work closely with the Home Office to assist on the implementation of the EU Settlement Scheme which will give EU citizens already residing in the UK, and those arriving during the Implementation Period, the opportunity to secure their future residence in the UK and to carry out their lives broadly as now

Once the UK has left the EU, the Government will put in place a new single, skills-based immigration system, which will apply to citizens from both EU and non-EU countries. Current entitlements of EU citizens will remain unchanged until the future border and immigration system is introduced.