Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of income from priority visa application fees is spent on UK Visas and Immigration staffing resources relating to the processing of such visas.

The Home Office does not hold information on the staffing costs associated with the processing of visa applications where the applicant has paid the optional priority visa service fee. The cost of processing visa applications varies by application type, as set out in the published unit costs and fees table, which can be accessed via the link below

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/606616/Unit_cost_table_2017.pdf