Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to provide local authorities with reliable demographic data to support their efforts in relation to the EU Settlement Scheme.

The Home Office publishes data on the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) in the

‘EU Settlement Scheme statistics’.

Data on the number of applications and concluded applications by UK local authority are published in Tables EUSS_LA_01, EUSS_LA_02 and EUSS_LA_03 of the quarterly EUSS statistics local authority tables (EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, March 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

This data is broken down by the applicants nationality, age and type of decision for each UK local authority.

Additionally, the Home Office has conducted surveys of Local Authorities in England, Wales and Scotland and of Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland to provide a more accurate estimate of the number of looked after children and care leavers eligible to apply to the EUSS.

The results from the latest survey with figures up to 23 April 2021 can be found at:

EU Settlement Scheme – Home Office looked-after children and care leavers survey 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)