Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will grant existing EU national university staff and students leave to remain in the UK in advance of Article 50 being triggered.

While the UK remains in the EU, EU national university staff and students will continue to have the same rights and status that they had before the referendum. The Prime Minister has been clear that she wants to protect the status of EU nationals already living and working in the UK after the UK leaves the EU, and the only circumstances in which that would not be possible is if British citizens' rights in other EU Member States were not protected in return.

The Government has provided repeated assurances on this point. It has also been clear that the timeframe for resolving this issue is through an agreement with the EU to ensure fair treatment of British citizens living in other EU countries.