Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's news story of 31 March 2020, NHS frontline workers visas extended so they can focus on fighting coronavirus, how many healthcare workers’ biometric residence permit renewals her Department (a) is currently processing and (b) has processed; and what the (i) average and (ii) longest length of time her Department has spent on processing such a renewal.

Published statistics pertaining to the number of NHS visas extended as of June 2020, can be found via the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2020

Updated statistics regarding those extended after this date will be published in future.