PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Home Office: Staff (30 October 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the staffing complement of her Department was in (a) October 2020 and (b) October 2019; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's resources to tackle the backlog in Tier 2 visa applications.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

The latest available data regarding staffing numbers for 2020 is published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2020.

For staffing data for October 2019, the data is published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2019

UKVI has diverted significant resources to work through the stock of applications which built up whilst the UK was subject to lockdown restrictions, this has seen a significant increase in the volume of applications decided. The levels of cases outstanding are reducing and output is consistently exceeding the number of new applications submitted.

As such we consider the resources available to undertake decision making in Tier 2 to be adequate.

Answered by:
Kevin Foster (Conservative)
9 November 2020