Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were received in (a) April and (b) May 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The volume of passport applications received is published quarterly in HM Passport Office’s transparency data.
The most recent published data can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-passport-office-data-q1-2022
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the email correspondence of 22 March 2022 from the hon. Member for Sheffield Heeley, reference LH20045.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office responded to the Hon. Member’s correspondence on 10 June 2022.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 14 of April 2022 from the hon. Member for Sheffield Heeley, reference LH20005.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office responded to the Hon. Member’s correspondence on 9 June 2022.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 11 May 2022 from the hon. Member for Sheffield Heeley, reference LH16318.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office responded to the Hon. Member’s correspondence on 13 June 2022.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2022 to Question 13191 on Passports: Applications, what proportion of passport applications are processed within six weeks.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Since April 2021, Her Majesty’s Passport Office has been advising its customers to allow up to 10 weeks to receive their passport. Between March and May 2022, over 90% of applications processed were completed within six weeks.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Home Office annual report and accounts: 2020 to 21 and the expectation that 2,000 additional operational Border Force staff will be required by January 2022, how many additional Border Force staff were recruited (a) by January 2022 and (b) as of 9 June 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The latest published staffing and finance figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2020-2021 at:
HO annual report and accounts 2020-21 (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Border Force has continued to build staffing levels during 2021/2022 and recruitment will continue throughout 2022. The training and deployment of new staff means resources will continue to increase through to the end of the calendar year.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many border force (a) officers and (b) other personnel are employed as of 9 June 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The latest published staffing and finance figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2020-2021 at:
HO annual report and accounts 2020-21 (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Border Force has continued to build staffing levels during 2021/2022 and recruitment will continue throughout 2022. The training and deployment of new staff means resources will continue to increase through to the end of the calendar year.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 11 of May 2022 from the hon. Member for Sheffield Heeley, reference LH20846.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office responded to the Hon. Member’s correspondence on 9 June 2022.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2022 to Question 9065 on Passports: applications, how many and what proportion of passport applications were dealt with within 10 weeks.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.
Between March and May, over 90% of applications processed were completed within six weeks, with approximately 98.5% completed within ten weeks.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of current passport applications are not processed within 10 weeks.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.
Between March and May, over 90% of applications processed were completed within six weeks, with approximately 98.5% completed within ten weeks.