Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has a six-month target in which to respond to applications for further leave to remain.

Home Office Migration Statistics do not specifically capture information on what proportion of applications for further leave to remain are responded to within six months. This information is collated alongside applications for leave to remain. To obtain this data separately would require a manual trawl of cases and would exceed the cost threshold.

Data on our performance against published Service Level Agreement (SLA) can be found within our transparency data: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Not all application routes have a six month SLA and certain routes do not have an SLA, this is due to the complexities of the applications submitted to us.