Alison McGovern – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison McGovern on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Immigration and Passport Service on (a) the service’s ability to meet the three-week timescale for processing an application for a child passport and (b) possible extension of that timescale.

James Brokenshire

Expected service standards for processing passports are given at: www.gov.uk.

My Rt. Hon. Friend the Home Secretary explained in the House on 12 June 2014
a set of measures to deal with the high level of passport demand has been put
in place. I refer the Hon. Member to the statement of 12 June 2014, Official
Report, columns 693 and 694.