Asked by: Yvette Cooper (Labour - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of passport applications have been waiting for a decision for more than six weeks as of 13 July 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The published processing time for the standard UK service is up to ten weeks. However, the vast majority of applications continue to be processed within six weeks.
Asked by: Yvette Cooper (Labour - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) skilled worker, (b) study, (c) spousal, (d) seasonal agricultural worker and (e) visitor visas have been processed outside target processing times in each of the last three years.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on the number of a) skilled worker, (b) study, (c) spousal, and (e) visitor visas which have been processed outside target processing times in our Transparency data. Seasonal agricultural workers are grouped into other work groups in the data.
The Home Office Transparency data sets out how the department is performing against its service standard, which can be found on the GOV.UK webpage: Visas and Citizenship data: Q1 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Yvette Cooper (Labour - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many e-gate failures Border Force has recorded in each of the last twelve calendar months.
Answered by Kevin Foster
It has never been government practice, for reasons of law enforcement, to comment on operational issues relating to border security and immigration controls. This includes offering commentary on the performance of border systems and of ePassport Gates data specifically.
The current eGate estate was upgraded in 2021. Incidents impacting the availability of eGates are proactively managed and the number of incidents is reducing.
The eGates process passengers arriving in the UK and provide a secure border check on approved travel documents and refer passengers to an officer if required.
Asked by: Yvette Cooper (Labour - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passengers at the UK border were not cleared within the timeframe set out in her Department's published service standards in each of the last twelve calendar months.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Performance against our passenger wait time SLA’s can be found in Border Force Transparency data available at:
Border Force transparency data: Border Force Transparency data: Q1 2022 opens in a new tab)