Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the average waiting time for the issuing a biometric permit by immigration status.
The information you have requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.
The information requested is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by examination of thousands of cases.
However, published information on the number of applications for leave to remain in all categories, as well as data on UK Visa and Immigration performance against service standards for applications made in the UK and from overseas, can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration