Ian Austin – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Austin on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average waiting time for (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewals in each of the last four years.

James Brokenshire

We are unable to break the data down into first time applications and renewals,
although we can provide the data broken down by straightforward and
non-straightforward.

The table below shows the average waiting time for straightforward and
non-straightforward applications on an annual basis since 2010.

Average processing times in working days