Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are currently awaiting decisions on visas to enter the UK; how many officials work on the decision-making process for those visas; and what the average waiting time for a decision is in such cases.

The Home Office publishes information on visa processing times and the number of cases ‘in progress’ online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data (listed by publication date under ‘UK Visas & Immigration’).

UK Visas and Immigration operate flexible staffing resources and deploy staff in line with demands on the service. Data on staffing within UK Visas & Immigration is published online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#staffing-data