Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford may have to wait until February 2023 for responses to enquiries sent to her Department in spring 2022.

Performance against target has been impacted by an unprecedented increase in MP’s queries following the Afghan evacuation, Ukraine crisis and HMPO application surge.

The department has launched a recovery plan which will lead to incremental improvements in service standards over the coming five months with a return to a 20-day service standard by March 2023.