Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources she will allocate to the Home Office’s MP Account Management Team to help ensure her Department can respond to MPs correspondence within its 20 day target.

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Over 60 additional staff have been identified to support delivery of the Home Office MP’s Correspondence recovery plan which will enable a return to service standard in January 2023.

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The Home Office MP’ Correspondence recovery plan will enable a return to service standard in January ’23. This will significantly reduce the time spent by MP’s caseworkers chasing responses from the Home Office and enable the extra resources detailed above to return to their normal duties. Both will have positive implications from a productivity and cost perspective for both MP’s offices and the Home Office.