Freedom of Information
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Team
www.gov.uk
Correspondence Unit
9 Downing Street
SW1A 2AG
Kiron Reid
Via: request513022xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Our ref: DEX001420
24 September 2018
Dear Kiron Reid ,
I refer to your request, where you asked:
What monitoring, research and statistical analysis is the UK Government doing to find out how
many UK citizens have applied for passports of other EU countries since the referendum vote
on continued membership of the European Union?
What monitoring, research and statistical analysis is the UK Government doing to find out how
many UK citizens have left the UK and moved to other EU member states because of the Brexit
vote?
Can the Department for Exiting the European Union tell me
(1) how many British citizens applied for passports of countries which will mean they retain an
EU citizenship if the UK leaves the EU?
(2) how this number compares with the typical number of British citizens who applied for
passports of other European Union countries in the five years before the referendum?
(3) how many British citizens have left the UK and moved to other EU member states since the
Brexit vote?
(4) how this number compares with the typical number of British citizens who moved to other
European Union countries in the five years before the referendum?
(5) What analysis the British Government has done to find out how many British citizens have
taken out other European citizenships because of the threat of Brexit, and
(6) How many British citizens have left the UK and become British Brexit refugees because of
the threat of leaving the EU and losing rights as EU citizens?
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Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU)
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team, DExEU.
