Brexit EU passport insurance and Brexit refugees.
How many British citizens have applied for passports of other EU countries since the Brexit vote and how many have moved to other EU countries?
I asked these questions for this important information last year to the UK Government department responsible for making arrangements for Britain to leave the European Union. In response to my request of 25 August 2018 the Department for Exiting the European Union did not have the information requested.
I have just asked the questions again to see if our highly clueless department care any more now about this disruption, cost and inconvenience to British citizens who will lose their rights as EU citizens, than they did a year ago. I don’t blame the civil servants, I blame the political masters who have given them this thankless task. The following request for information has been submitted via the admirable WhatDoTheyKnow site. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com Many thanks to them for the public service in assisting open government.
Dear Department for Exiting the European Union,
Please tell me how many British citizens have applied for passports of other EU countries since the Brexit vote and how many have moved to other EU countries?
Further to my request in August last year. Your department presumably is responsible for considering the effect of Britain leaving the EU on British citizens. Last year you said that you did not hold information on UK citizens applying for passports of other European Union countries or moving to other EU countries.
This must be a hugely important side effect of the vote in the referendum. I would like to know now what monitoring is the UK Government doing on this issue and what steps the Department for Exiting the European Union is taking to evaluate this effect on British citizens?
Yours faithfully,
Kiron Reid
20 West Albert Road,
Liverpool
UK
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/how_many_british_citizens_have_a_2