Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time has been for each type of visa application in each of the last 10 years.

Published data on visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards, is published online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data (then listed by publication date under ‘UK Visas & Immigration’).