Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was to decide fee waiver applications in the last 12 months.

The average time taken between January 2015 and December 2015 to consider whether an application meets the fee waiver requirements is 95 calendar days. These results represent the time taken with both asylum and non asylum based fee waiver considerations.

January 2015 – December 2015 was taken as the 12 month time frame to fall in line with data that is published.