Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken by her Department was to process a Standard Visitor visa in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) January to August 2022.

Average processing times for a Standard Visitor Visa are not captured in our published data. To capture the requested data would incur a disproportionate cost.

The current average processing times for Standard Visitor Visas can be found on the GOV.uk webpage: Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Home Office’s published data on its performance against its service standard historically can be found in our transparency data: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)