Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Manchester Gorton of 2 February 2021 on Mitra Oloufi.

The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of MPs written correspondence within 20 working days. Performance has been impacted by a very significant increase in the volume of correspondence received, alongside the need for Ministers and officials to instigate a remote process for drafting and signing correspondence during the period of COVID-19 restrictions.

The Department recognises that it has not been able to meet service standard in some cases but have implemented an action plan to clear backlogs and drive up performance.

We regret that The Hon. Member’s office has declined several offers to regularly discuss these and other cases in detail with Home Office officials. This offer remains open.

UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded as detailed below.

PQ 178530 – MPAM reference 0130533/21 – 25 March 2021

PQ 179503 – MPAM reference 0128323/21 – 31 March 2021

PQ 179507 – MPAM reference 0133230/21 – 1 April 2021

PQ 179504 – MPAM reference 0128306/21 – 31 March 2021

PQ 178532 – MPAM reference 0131823/21 – 31 March 2021

PQ 179505 – MPAM reference 0128684/21 – 27 March 2021

PQ 179501 – MPAM reference 0125432/21 – 6 April 2021

PQ 179502 – MPAM reference 0128279/21 – 30 March 2021