Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses digital workforce tools, including information on staff complements and pay grades, to plan workforce requirements in UK Visas and Immigration to help determine its processing times.

UK Visas and Immigration utilise a number of internal management tools and management data, including intake estimates created by the Home Office Analysis and Insight team, to develop workforce plans and recruitment plans to process estimated intake volumes.