Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken to conclude a visa application was in each of the last seven years; and steps her Department is taking to reduce the time it takes to process such applications.

Performance against service standards for processing of visas is published in the Migration Transparency data at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-february-2018 "