Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reallocating the number of places available for foreign nationals to enter the UK under Youth Mobility Scheme agreements each year from countries where the level of uptake in the annual allocation is low to countries where that level is high.

Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) allocations are set on an annual basis and are written into the Immigration Rules for clarity for individual partner countries.

The quota is largely based on the number of British nationals being afforded youth mobility visas by said partner country in the preceding year, rather than based on an overall number across all YMS schemes.

The approach ensures fair allocation for partner countries on the basis of reciprocal offers to young British nationals.