Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time decision-making staff deal with (i) visa applications and (ii) asylum applications (A) currently and (B) in 2009.

UK Visas and Immigration regularly reviews its capacity plans and resources and redeploys staff where necessary to help meet and maintain service standards for individual services or routes.

However, to provide the number of decision-making staff and support staff who were employed to process visa and asylum applications in 2019 and 2009 it would require a manual check through resourcing databases and would encounter disproportionate costs.

Data on staffing within UK Visas & Immigration is published online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#staffing-data