Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Biometric Residence Permits have failed to meet her Department’s target for delivery in each of the last (a) five years and (b) 12 months.

Information relating to the current number of applications outstanding is management information and subject to change.

However, published information on the number of applications for leave to remain in all categories, as well as data on UK Visa and Immigration performance against service standards for applications made in the UK and from overseas, and the proportion of those cases classified as non-straightforward, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration.

Where an application is defined as non-straightforward due to complexity, the customer will be written to within the normal processing time to explain why it will not be decided within the normal standard, and to explain what will happen next.