Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve her Department's decision time on visa applications.

UKVI are currently processing applications on the overwhelming majority of its visa routes within their published customer service standards and continue to prioritise urgent compelling or compassionate cases across all workstreams.

Where applications are complex and further information is required, decisions may take longer. UKVI encourages all customers to apply in good time ahead of intended travel dates.

The Home Office publishes data on its performance against its service level agreement for visas, which can be found on the GOV.UK webpage: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK.