To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many of the 25,000 citizenships offered to Hong Kong people by the Government of Singapore have been taken up, at the latest date for which information is available.

We understand that, at the end of February, 8,605 Hong Kong people had been granted approval in principle under the Singaporean Government's scheme for permanent resident status in Singapore (citizenship is not offered under the scheme). Of those granted approval, 588 are now settled in Singapore, of whom 494 had already been living there when the scheme was introduced.