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Q3 2025
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Best on-time rates — Q3 2025
Rural Payments Agency
100.0%
Office of Rail and Road
100.0%
Debt Management Office
100.0%
Serious Fraud Office
97.1%
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
97.1%
Lowest on-time rates — Q3 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
41.5%
Home Office
67.1%
Ministry of Defence
74.6%
Health and Safety Executive
74.7%
Cabinet Office
75.5%
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182 matching responses
View on GOV.UKPeople excluded from refugee status and granted Restricted Leave to Remain in the UK including details of the 5 most common nationalities.
The number of refugees resettled into the UK under the Gateway Programme from 2011 to 2012.
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) in Scotland between 2011 and 2013, and the local authorities that accommodate them.
Adult nationality (AN) and minor nationality (MN) citizenship applications processed from 2008 to 2013 by average time and percentage within 182 calendar days.
Head count and working pattern for immigration officers and assistant immigration officers in North and South England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Policy notices issued to caseworkers by the Home Office european operational policy team since 1 January 2013.
The number of applications processed for knowledge of language and life (KoLL) in the UK test from January 2009 to February 2014 by nationality.
The number of Section 4 applications received by the Home Office each quarter from 2011 to 2013.
The number of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children at centres in Plymouth, Devon and the grant amount paid by the Home Office from 2002 to 2013.
Asylum applications refused at initial decision under Article 1F of the 1951 Refugee Convention or Article 12 of the EU Qualification Directive from 2012 to 2013, broken down by nationality.
The number, competed and estimated processing time of SET(O) indefinite leave to remain applications submitted in November 2012.
An annual breakdown of the number of Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) applications under the 3 programmes (VARP, VARRP and AVRIM) and the outcomes from 2003 to 2013.
Guidance issued to caseworkers from January 2014 for handling applications under the Surinder Singh route.
Estimated number of migrants with valid leave to remain in the UK on census day 27 March 2011.
Top 5 nationalities of asylum applicants refused at initial decision, excluding dependants from 1996 to 1998.
Civil penalties issued and value of the penalties served for employing illegal workers in west Cumbria, including details of businesses, from January 2011 to December 2013.
Tier 1 Entrepreneur applications processed where 'venture capitalist' was stated as the seed funding option from 1 March 2012 to September 2013.
List of Visa Applications Centres (VACs) operated on behalf of the Home Office including location, country and region.
The number of Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) applications processed using No Time Limit (NTL) form from January 2013 to September 2013.
The number of SET(LR) applications processed from January 2013 to September 2013, including the number completed and pending.
The number of Nationality application processed under section 4C from 30 April 2003 to 30 September 2014.
Tier 1 indefinite leave to remain SET(O) applications processed from January to September 2013, by numbers despatched and pending.
Staff from the former UKBA and its successive incarnation that have been dismissed for misconduct from 1 December 2008 to 30 November 2013.
Naturalisation (AN) as a British Citizen applications, broken down by approved and processing times, January to September 2013.
Processing times of nationality applications processed from January 2013 to September 2013.
British Overseas Citizen B(OS) applications and the outcome where the applicant resides in India, broken down by year from 2008 to 2012.
The percentage of decisions upheld before the First-tier Tribunal for each Presenting Officer Unit (POU) from January 2011 to October 2013.
Grants of support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to pregnant women in 2012 and 2013 unable to satisfy condition 3.2(B).
Home Office asylum accommodation providers and the regions they cover.
Tier 1 visa applications received and granted between 29 February 2008 and 30 September 2013.
Marriage and civil partner entry clearance visa applications received and refused from January 2013 to September 2013.
Contract for the Life in the UK test between the Home Office and Learndirect Ltd from 1 May 2013 to 31 March 2016.
SET (O) Long Residency applications received and completed from August 2013 to September 2013 including the average processing time.
Tier 4 settlement applications processed from family members of British citizens from India and outside European Economic Area (EEA), breakdown by countries.
Visa applications processed in New Delhi, including applications received, refused and issued after an allowed appeal.
Points based system (PBS) process instructions and evidential flexibility guidance for case workers from 2009 to 2013.
Number of long residency SET (O) applications received from 18 August to 8 December 2013, including those completed and pending.
Statistical data on Tier 2 intra-company transfer (ICT) certificates of sponsorship (CoS) from January 2009 to June 2013.
Tier 1 investor and entrepreneur processed between November 2012 to September 2013 broken down by nationality.
Asylum support expenditure and supported populations in Scotland from 2008 to 2013.
The number of British nationality status letters granted confirming that the applicant is British Citizen from 2010 to 2012.
The total expenditure and unit cost of processing asylum applications from 2010 to 2013.
The number of EEA family permit visa applications issued and resolved in 24 hours from January 2012 to June 2013.
The number of Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa applications received and issued, broken down quarterly between 2012 and 2013.
The number of indefinite leave to remain applications processed under the domestic violence concession between January 2006 to June 2013.
Tier 1 investment visa applications received from main applicants and dependants from January 2008 to June 2013.
Decisions dispatched to Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish or Slovakian migrants living in Scotland from 2004 and 2013.
Tier 2 certificates of sponsorships (CoS) assigned and used from 1 January 2008 to 30 September 2013.
Number of applications received for academic visitors from 2004 to June 2013.
Number of asylum seekers dispersed to the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside and Teesside and nationally under Section 95 support in 2013.
Sources:
GOV.UK Search API (
filter_content_store_document_type=foi_release) and
Cabinet Office / MoJ FOI Statistics CSV.
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