Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of a return to freedom of movement on the British economy.

The government has not made an assessment on a return to Freedom of Movement because it is not government policy. There are no civil servants in the Home Office dedicated to assessing the economic, legal, or fiscal impact of a return to EU Freedom of Movement or an EEA-style mobility framework.

We are focused on concluding agreements on Sanitary and Phytosanitary checks, the Electricity Trading Scheme, and the Youth Experience Scheme at next month's EU-UK Summit that will add billions to the economy and cut the red tape that holds back British business.

The Prime Minister will set out the next steps regarding the UK’s longer-term relationship with the EU around the time of the Summit.