Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on expanding the Youth Mobility Scheme to EU nationals.
Each Youth Mobility Scheme is subject to a bilateral, reciprocal agreement which also provides benefit to UK Nationals.
The UK Government has indicated its desire to negotiate a youth mobility arrangement with the EU, or with individual countries within it if a collective agreement is not possible, as well as with those further afield.
The Home Office will not add nations to the scheme unilaterally in the absence of such an agreement. We do however, remain open to concluding further schemes on this reciprocal basis.