Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress he has made on negotiating bilateral youth mobility schemes with countries in Europe.

We remain open to negotiating youth mobility scheme (YMS) arrangements with other countries and territories. However, as each YMS is subject to a bilateral, reciprocal agreement which also provides benefit to UK nationals, with the detail negotiated and agreed between the relevant parties, we are unable to disclose the status of negotiations as they occur.

We remain committed to expanding our YMS to more nations, including but not limited to those within the EU. Further details of any additional YMS agreements will be announced once they are concluded.