Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce waiting times for skilled worker visa applications and renewals.

All straightforward skilled worker visa applications are being processed within our advertised service standard. If customers wish to receive a quicker response, they have the option of selecting a priority service on which there is no cap.

With regards to undefined certificates of sponsorship (CoS), we have recently reduced our core service standard by a third and increased priority slots by a minimum of 100 per week. These are also being processed within their service standard.