Meg Hillier – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Meg Hillier on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewal applications were received by HM Passport Office in each week since 6 January 2014; and what proportion of those applications (i) were completed in three weeks, (ii) were completed in four weeks and (iii) remain outstanding for each of these weeks.

James Brokenshire

Table 1 sets out the volume of new and renewal passports on a weekly basis since 5 January 2014.

Table 2 provides the proportion of straightforward cases dealt with within three weeks , four weeks and over four weeks. The information is not available by breakdown of application type.