Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the length of waiting times for decisions on visa applications for (a) visitors, (b) students, (c) families and (d) spouses.

Published data on entry clearance visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards by category, is published online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-february-2018 The large majority of cases are straightforward and are dealt with within Service standards