Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in her Department (a) were working on the passage of Ukrainian refugees to the UK on (i) 28 February and (i) 7 March 2022 and (b) will be working on that area on (A) 14 and (B) 21 March 2022 in (I) the UK and (II) other European countries.

We are committed to ensuring our operational teams have the resources they need to run an efficient and effective system. We actively monitor workflows to ensure sufficient resources are in place to meet demand, including from pressures relating to Ukraine.

The Home Office and the commercial provider operating our Visa Application Centres have surged staff across Europe to meet demand, where we can offer over 13,000 appointments to visa applicants, and UKVI staff in the UK are working seven days a week to process applications.