Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many decisions on asylum applications have exceed the usual decision time of six months in the last 12 months.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Information regarding the number of asylum applications which did not receive a decision within six months is published as part of the Government’s Transparency agenda, the latest release of which can be found at table Asy_01 of the Asylum Transparency Data May 2022: Immigration and protection data: Q1 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for indefinite leave to remain took longer than six months for a decision to be reached in (a) June 2019 and (b) June 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications which were granted and refused for indefinite leave to remain in our Migration Statistics: Migration statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Home Office transparency data contains data of our performance against service standard for indefinite leave to remain applications. This can be found in VC_02 of our transparency data: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Home Office does not publish data on the number of people who have applied for and have been processed under indefinite leave to remain. To obtain this information would require a manual trawl of cases and would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) people applied for indefinite leave to remain and (b) applications for indefinite leave to remain were processed in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications which were granted and refused for indefinite leave to remain in our Migration Statistics: Migration statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Home Office transparency data contains data of our performance against service standard for indefinite leave to remain applications. This can be found in VC_02 of our transparency data: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Home Office does not publish data on the number of people who have applied for and have been processed under indefinite leave to remain. To obtain this information would require a manual trawl of cases and would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications have taken longer than 10 weeks to process since the 10 week processing time was introduced in April 2021.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The volume of UK passport applications that were processed in over 10 weeks from 1 April 2021 to 30 June 2022 represents1.6 % of the UK applications processed within that period.
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications exceeded HM Passport Office’s service delivery timescales in (a) June 2022 and (b) June 2019.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.
Across the first 6 months of 2022, Her Majesty’s Passport Office processed 97.7% of UK standard applications within 10 weeks.
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many casework enquiries her Department received from MPs’ offices in (a) June 2019 and (b) June 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Department does not provide information on the intake of casework enquiries received from MP’s offices.
Data about intake and performance in answering Hon. Members correspondence are published quarterly with the latest Quarter available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q1-2022
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many casework enquiries her Department received from MPs’ offices in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Department does not provide information on the intake of casework enquiries received from MP’s offices.
Data about intake and performance in answering Hon. Members correspondence are published quarterly with the latest Quarter available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q1-2022
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme took longer for a decision to be reached than the usual service delivery timescales in (a) June 2019 and (b) June 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) in the ‘EU Settlement Scheme statistics’.
The latest published information on EUSS applications and applications concluded by month to 31 March 2022 can be found in table ‘EUSS_MON: EU Settlement Scheme: Monthly applications received and concluded, by outcome, UK country and nationality, 28 August 2018 to 31 March 2022’ available at: EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, March 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data for April, May and June 2022 will be published on 25 August 2022 in EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, June 2022 while data for July 2022 will be published in EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, September 2022 on 24 November 2022.
Our aim is to process all applications to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) as quickly as possible. Each individual case is considered on its own facts, which means some cases will inevitably take longer than others to conclude, for example if the applicant is facing an impending prosecution or has a criminal record.
The following link lists the expected processing times for EU Settlement Scheme applications, based upon current performance: EU Settlement Scheme: current estimated processing times for applications - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Our aim is to conclude applications for an EEA family permit or an EUSS family permit as soon as possible, after identity and supporting documents are submitted. More information can be found here;
Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) people applied for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme and (b) applications for settled status under that Scheme were processed in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) in the ‘EU Settlement Scheme statistics’.
The latest published information on EUSS applications and applications concluded by month to 31 March 2022 can be found in table ‘EUSS_MON: EU Settlement Scheme: Monthly applications received and concluded, by outcome, UK country and nationality, 28 August 2018 to 31 March 2022’ available at: EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, March 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data for April, May and June 2022 will be published on 25 August 2022 in EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, June 2022 while data for July 2022 will be published in EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, September 2022 on 24 November 2022.
Our aim is to process all applications to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) as quickly as possible. Each individual case is considered on its own facts, which means some cases will inevitably take longer than others to conclude, for example if the applicant is facing an impending prosecution or has a criminal record.
The following link lists the expected processing times for EU Settlement Scheme applications, based upon current performance: EU Settlement Scheme: current estimated processing times for applications - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Our aim is to conclude applications for an EEA family permit or an EUSS family permit as soon as possible, after identity and supporting documents are submitted. More information can be found here;
Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) people have submitted an asylum claim and (b) asylum claims have been processed in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications raised are published in table Asy_D01, and data on initial decisions on asylum applications are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.
The latest data relates to the year ending June 2022. Data for July 2022 to the end of September 2022 is set to be published on 24 November 2022.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.