Question follow-through · 17864
Visas: Sponsorship
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure sponsor licenses are processed within the service standards timeframes.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure sponsor licenses are processed within the service standards timeframes.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2024
Answer published
All fully completed, straightforward sponsor licence applications are currently being considered within the service standard timeframes.Only a small number of applications remain outside the service level agreement in cases where further information is re...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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