Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make a comparative assessment of the potential merits of entering into a Youth Mobility Scheme agreement with (a) the EU and (b) individual EU member states on a bilateral basis.

We remain open to negotiating Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) arrangements with other countries and territories including the EU or individual nations within it.

However, as each YMS is subject to a 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.

Further details of additional YMS agreements will be announced once they are concluded.