Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost to the public purse of the judicial review sought by the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens' Rights Agreements on the implementation of the EU Settlement Scheme with regard to the upgrade from pre-settled to settled status.

The judgment of the judicial review sought by the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens' Rights Agreements on the implementation of the EU Settlement Scheme found that the pre-permanent right to reside under the Withdrawal Agreement does not expire for failure to make a second application to the EUSS; and a Withdrawal Agreement permanent right to reside is acquired automatically by a pre-settled status holder as soon as they meet the relevant conditions, even if they have not applied for settled status under the EUSS.

Information on the cost to the public purse is not held in a reportable format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.