Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish his Department's guidance on how EEA citizens will be able to demonstrate their right to reside after 29 March 2019 in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

The Government has made clear that the current arrangements for demonstrating eligibility to services for EEA nationals living in the UK will not change before the introduction of the future skills-based immigration system in 2021, including in the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

This position is set out in the Government’s White Paper on the UK’s future skills-based immigration system and the Citizens’ Rights Policy Paper published on 6 December 2018. Guidance for EEA nationals, employers and service providers will be updated to reiterate this.