Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of EEA national children have applied for (a) pre-settled and (b) settled status as of December 2019.

Published information on EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) applications by the applicant’s age and concluded applications by age and outcome type (including grants of settled and pre-settled status) to 30 September 2019, can be found in the Home Office’s ‘EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics’, statistics tables, tables EUSS_02 and EUSS_04 respectively, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-quarterly-statistics-september-2019.

EUSS quarterly statistics to 31 December 2019, including updated tables by age group, are planned for publication on 6 February 2020.

The published figures refer specifically to applications made to the EUSS and cannot be directly compared with Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates of the resident population of EU/EEA nationals in the UK. The published EUSS figures include non-EEA family members, Irish nationals, and eligible EEA citizens not resident in the UK, none of whom are usually included in ONS estimates of the resident EU population. Furthermore, the population estimates do not take account of people’s migration intentions and will include people who have come to the UK for a range of purposes, including some who have no intention to settle in the UK.