Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's processes are for the assessment of (a) complex and (b) non-complex applications for leave to remain on the basis of family and private life.

The published statistics on grants and refusals of extensions of leave by category can be found in table ex_01_q in the Immigration Statistics release.

The latest release Immigration Statistics covering 2015-16 and 2016-17, is available for download at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017-data-tables

with the extensions tables at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638594/extensions-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods