Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government will take to expand the UK's youth mobility partnerships with EU countries after the transition period.

The Youth Mobility Scheme is a cultural exchange programme, allowing young people aged 18 to 30 from participating countries and territories to experience life in the UK for up to two years.

We currently have schemes with Australia, Canada, Japan, Monaco, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, and are open to discussing the introduction of other potential schemes, including with the EU or with individual member states within it if a collective agreement is not possible.