Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British citizenship applications have taken longer than six months for a decision to be reached in the last 12 months.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on naturalisation applications made and completed every quarter on the Gov.uk website. This includes performance against the six-month service standard for completing applications. The most recent data set was published on 25 August 2022 and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2022
The June 2019 data has been archived but can be found here:
[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Visas and citizenship data: February 2020 - GOV.UK (nationalarchives.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 British citizenship applications took longer than six months for a decision to be reached in (a) June 2019 and (b) June 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on naturalisation applications made and completed every quarter on the Gov.uk website. This includes performance against the six-month service standard for completing applications. The most recent data set was published on 25 August 2022 and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2022
The June 2019 data has been archived but can be found here:
[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Visas and citizenship data: February 2020 - GOV.UK (nationalarchives.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 British citizenship were (a) submitted and (b) processed in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on naturalisation applications made and completed every quarter on the Gov.uk website. This includes performance against the six-month service standard for completing applications. The most recent data set was published on 25 August 2022 and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2022
The June 2019 data has been archived but can be found here:
[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Visas and citizenship data: February 2020 - GOV.UK (nationalarchives.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 undecided further leave to remain applications relating to human rights and family claims there were in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The number of applications for leave to remain in the UK received on each route in each quarter are published at the link below.
Tab HR_01 refers to HR/Complex applications received – which include human rights and family leave to remain cases.
Tab HR_03 refers to HR/Complex applications outstanding – which include human rights and family leave to remain cases.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2022
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) people have applied for further leave to remain relating to human rights and family claims and (b) applications for further leave to remain relating to human rights and family claims were processed in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The number of applications for leave to remain in the UK received on each route in each quarter are published at the link below.
Tab HR_01 refers to HR/Complex applications received – which include human rights and family leave to remain cases.
Tab HR_03 refers to HR/Complex applications outstanding – which include human rights and family leave to remain cases.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2022
Asked by: Royston Smith (Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many further leave to remain applications exceeded usual service delivery timescales in (a) June 2022 and (b) June 2019.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office do not specifically capture information on what proportion of applications for further leave to remain have exceed their usual service standard. This information is collated alongside applications for leave to remain. To obtain this data separately would require a manual trawl of cases and would incur a disproportionate cost
The Home Office transparency data contains data of our performance against service standard for leave to remain applications. This can be found in VC_02 of our transparency data: Migration transparency data - 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 passport applications were (a) submitted and (b) processed in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Data for applications submitted are published quarterly with the latest quarter available at :
HM Passport Office data: Q1 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
(b) Applications Processed | |
Jul-21 | 350,451 |
Aug-21 | 353,444 |
Sep-21 | 411,172 |
Oct-21 | 480,861 |
Nov-21 | 552,053 |
Dec-21 | 405,624 |
Jan-22 | 438,448 |
Feb-22 | 734,072 |
Mar-22 | 1,030,359 |
Apr-22 | 898,205 |
May-22 | 1,068,072 |
Jun-22 | 898,777 |
Between March and May, over 90% of applications were processed within 6 weeks, and 98.5% within the 10 week standard timeframe.