Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of leave to remain applications have been treated as falling outside normal service standards in each six-month period in the last four years.

New service standards have applied to leave to remain applications submitted to
UK Visas and Immigration on or after 1 January 2014. Comparing the performance
against new service standards to the performance against previous service
standards is not possible given the change in methodology at that time.

However, reporting on UK Visas and Immigration’s performance against service
standards is now more detailed than prior to 1 January 2014 and can be found in
the temporary and permanent migration section of the quarterly migration
transparency data release, available at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data

Information about what UK Visas and Immigration’s published service standards
are and how applications that have been excluded from service standards are
categorised is available in the ‘Notes’ tab of the temporary and permanent
migration data.
Information on how many applications were concluded within service standards is
available at tab ‘InC2’.
Information on how many applications did not meet the service standard and how
many applications were excluded from the service standard is available at tab
‘InC5’.