Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Latvian nationals have applied to the EU Settlement Scheme; and if her Department will provide a geographical breakdown by region of where those applications were made from.

The latest published figures show the total number of applications to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) received up to 30 April 2020 was more than 3.5 million (3,536,000), of which 99,800 were from Latvian nationals. The latest figures can be found in the Home Office’s ‘EU Settlement Scheme monthly statistics’ available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-april-2020

Published information on EUSS applications by the applicant’s nationality, region and local authority in the United Kingdom (up to 31 March 2020), can be found in the Home Office’s ‘EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics’, local authority statistics tables, specifically table EUSS_LA_01, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-quarterly-statistics-march-2020.