Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have a cap on the total number of visas they will allocate through the Youth Mobility Scheme.

Quotas are set annually in line with Memoranda of Understanding negotiated with individual countries and territories, and in non-pandemic times linked to the number of UK nationals travelling overseas to take advantage of the reciprocal arrangements. The allocations for each year are published in the Immigration Rules.

There is no overall cap on the number of visas available on the scheme as a whole, and we remain open to negotiating new agreements with other countries and territories.