Work Permits

Home Department written question – answered at on 21 February 2005.

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Photo of Bob Laxton Bob Laxton PPS (Rt Hon Alan Johnson, Secretary of State), Department for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time taken in the last 12 months to grant approval to a work permit extension application is.

Photo of Des Browne Des Browne Minister of State (Citizenship, Immigration and Counter-Terrorism), Home Office, Minister of State (Home Office) (Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality)

The average time taken to grant an approval for a work permit extension was four working days during the calendar year 2004.

This is the time taken from receipt of the work permit application in Work Permits (UK) to dispatch of a decision.

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