Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current timescale is for processing leave to remain renewals; what proportion of such renewals cases have been waiting (a) the former service standard time of two months, (b) over four months and (c) longer than six months; what steps she is taking to (i) make the system efficient and (ii) reduce waiting periods; and if she will make a statement.

Information on performance against service standards is routinely published as part of the UKVI Transparency data.

The current data is available for Quarter 4 of 2020 and can be found in the attached link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-february-2021

Data for Quarter 1 of 2021 will be published in the next Transparency data release.

Due to the pandemic, there have been some delays to the application process, but we continue to process all applications as quickly as possible.