Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants who paid for the priority visa service in each of the last three years did not receive a decision within the published service standard; and what proportion this represents of total priority service applications in each year.

Information on the volume of overseas and in-country applications, and performance against published service standards, including for Priority Services, is published in the ‘Visas, status and immigration data: April to June 2026’ as part of the Migration Transparency Data on GOV.UK. The number of applications received by service type, including Priority Services, can be found in table VSI_01a. Performance against published service standards can be found in table VSI_02.