Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2021 to Question 73790 on Migrant Workers: Employment, whether her Department collects data on the time taken to complete Employer Checking Service checks and (b) in what format that data is collated.

The Home Office holds management information collected as part of a daily census, which covers the total size of the Employer Checking Service work queue and the age of the oldest query awaiting unanswered. This information cannot be used to infer an average processing time for the queue as a whole.

More granular detail, and a reliable calculation of average processing time would require a case by case review, which would incur disproportionate cost.

The information is provisional internal management information and subject to change. It is not quality assured under National Statistics protocols and does not constitute part of National Statistics.