Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are assigned to the UKVI MP Account Manager Team hotline.

Since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis there has been a significant increase in calls to the MP Enquiry Line leading to lengthy wait times for which we apologise.

Normal staffing levels for the MPs Enquiry Line is a maximum of 6 agents available at peak times and this was increased to 16 on Monday 4^th April.

We are now seeing a reduction in waiting times and we anticipate call wait times volumes will drop significantly from next week.

To ease pressure on the lines during this period we have requested MPs Offices only use the line for Ukraine queries or non-Ukraine compassionate/urgent cases.