Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long the average leave to remain application takes from application to decision; and whether there is a backlog.

Information on processing of cases against service standards, and on work in progress levels, by case type, is published in the Home Office’s in-country Migration Transparency data, at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-february-2018