Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of application rates in the EU Settlement scheme.

On 10 June 2019, the Home Secretary confirmed that more than 800,000 applications had been received under the EU Settlement Scheme and that almost 700,000 of these had been granted status.

The second official statistics – ‘EU Settlement Scheme Statistics, May 2019’ – on the operation of the scheme were published on 20 June 2019, including applications received by nationality and constituent parts of the UK. These can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-may-2019.