Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many priority visa applications have been processed in the last 12 months within the six-week time frame set by his Department.

The Priority Visa Service for settlement applications aims to process straightforward cases within 30 working days.

Those applications made under the priority service will be placed to the front of the processing queue and expedited. However, it should be noted that timescales for decisions are not guaranteed.

Data on PV settlement visa processing times is not currently published. Published data on settlement visa processing times can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-august-2018