The CAA
website has just been amended to include this statement:
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The CAA will to continue to recognise EASA Theoretical Knowledge certificates that are current (and within their validity dates) on 31 December 2020 for up to two years after the end of the transition period toward satisfying the requirements for the issue of a UK CAA licence. Any exams completed under the auspices of an EASA Member State’s competent authority after 31 December 2020 will not be recognised toward meeting the requirements for the issue of a UK CAA licence."
This only really affects pilots using Austro or similar who decided not to change their SOLI out of the UK. It seems to me that the best advice for them, if unable to complete before the end of the year, would be to change their SOLI now, get an EASA licence, and then get a UK CAA licence issued on the basis of their existing EASA licence sometime next year. Bad form for the CAA to announce this so late in the day, they have had plenty of time to sort their policy out.