Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to improve processing times for spousal and partner visa applications.

The Home Office had been prioritising Ukraine visa schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Staff from other Government departments, including DWP and HMRC, have been surged into the department to help with Ukraine work and enable normal visa routes to return to normal service levels in due course.