Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide a substantive response to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Manchester Gorton of 16 October 2020 on Kharajan Mohammad.

The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of MPs written correspondence within 20 working days. Performance has been impacted by a very significant increase in the volume of correspondence received, alongside the need for Ministers and officials to instigate a remote process for drafting and signing correspondence during the period of COVID-19 restrictions.

The Department recognises that it has not been able to meet service standard in some cases but have implemented an action plan to clear backlogs and drive up performance.

We regret that The Hon. Member’s office has declined several offers to regularly discuss these and other cases in detail with Home Office officials. This offer remains open.

UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team is pursuing enquiries on both cases and aims to respond as below:

PQ 179497 - B27434/00 – full response to be issued within two weeks.

PQ 179498 - B28129/00 – full response to be issued to the MP within two working days.

UKVI MP Engagement team will contact you if it is not possible to provide full responses within these timeframes.