PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Immigration: British National (Overseas) (1 October 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of allowing British National (Overseas) passport holders to live and work in the UK; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by:
Emma Reynolds (Labour)

The UK continues to support the one country, two systems model underpinned by the Sino-British Joint Declaration. The immigration status of BN(O)s is part of this agreement; there is no right to work or live in the UK under the BN(O) passport.

I refer the Hon Lady to the answers given by my Rt. Hon Friend, the Foreign Secretary, when responding to an urgent question on 26 September 2019.

Answered by:
Seema Kennedy (Conservative)
7 October 2019