Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of her Department's capacity to implement the policy proposals outlined in her Department's policy paper Safeguarding the position of EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU, published on 26 June 2017.

The Government set out its fair and serious offer to EU nationals living in the UK on 28 June. Negotiations on the nature and shape of the immigration system that will operate after UK exit from the EU have started with our EU partners. The Home Office currently processes several million immigration decisions each year. The necessary resources will be made available to implement and operate the new system for both those EU nationals already here and those that wish to come in future, alongside delivery of the Government’s existing plans to transform the operation of the immigration system. The Government will provide further detail in due course.