Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2021 to Question 57200 on Correspondence, what estimate she has made of the total number of items of correspondence from hon. Members (a) awaiting response and (b) awaiting response after the twenty day service standard has passed as at 8 November 2021.

Data about intake and performance in answering MP Correspondence are published quarterly and this includes data up to and including the end of quarter 2 – 2021 with the latest Quarter available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q2-2021

We are proposing the release of data for quarter 3 in due course.