Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the processing time standards for applications for the EU Settlement Scheme that (a) are straightforward, (b) require additional information and (c) require the applicant to post passports to his Department.

We have committed to publishing quarterly statistical reports on the EU Settlement Scheme as a whole, alongside our Immigration Statistics from August 2019. Home Office statisticians are currently considering the content and will be taking into account the views of statistics users.

The Home Office publishes estimated processing times for EU Settlement Scheme applications at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-settlement-scheme-application-processing-times/eu-settlement-scheme-pilot-current-expected-processing-times-for-applications, giving applicants a guide to the current level of service.