Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2017 to Question 68205, what the Government's policy is on retrospective removal of the status of non-UK EEA nationals who have already automatically achieved permanent residence status by exercising their treaty rights as an EEA national in the UK for five years.

On 29 March, the Prime Minister formally notified the EU of the Government’s decision to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and withdraw from the EU. In future the Free Movement Directive will no longer apply and the migration of EU nationals will be subject to UK law. The notification letter makes clear that the Government wants to strike an early agreement about the rights of EU citizens who are already living in the UK, and UK citizens living in the EU, giving citizens as much certainty as possible.