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Written Question
Passports: Delivery Services
Thursday 16th December 2021

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports have been delivered since TNT became the delivery provider; and how many complaints have been received regarding their service.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The volume deliveries by the secure delivery provider for Her Majesty’s Passport Office in the UK includes both passports and supporting documents. The delivery of passports alone is not held in a reportable format.

From 1 March 2020 to 30 November 2021, 8,286,931 passports and supporting documents have been delivered under the current contract for UK secure delivery services. 1829 complaints, were received about these services within the same period, which represents 0.02% of the delivery volume.


Written Question
Passports: Delivery Services
Wednesday 15th December 2021

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether officials in her Department have had discussions with representatives of TNT about complaints in respect of their passport delivery service.

Answered by Kevin Foster

Complaint information provides key insight to help identify and inform potential improvements to the services provided by Her Majesty’s Passport Office and its suppliers.

Complaints are therefore routinely discussed in the regular meetings held between HM Passport Office and FedEx (the parent company of TNT).


Written Question
Passports: Delivery Services
Wednesday 15th December 2021

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of complaints in respect of the delivery of passports since TNT became the delivery provider.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The percentage of complaints about UK deliveries of passports and supporting documents is 0.02% between January and November 2021.

This compares to 0.02% in 2019 which was the last full year prior to the commencement of the current contract.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Sep 2021
Violence Against Women and Girls: Police Response

"The Minister is obviously right to say that every woman murdered is an appalling tragedy, but it is particularly agonising when women are murdered when there were opportunities to protect them but they had not been taken. In my constituency, 23-year-old Gracie Spinks was murdered by a man who had …..."
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Monday 17th May 2021

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations into police officers conducted by the Independent Office for Police Conduct have taken longer than 12 months from initial complaint to completion, by each police force area in each year from 2015 to date.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

The Home Office does not hold data on IOPC investigations. The Independent Office of Police Conduct will write to my hon. Friend and I will place a copy of the letter in the Library of the House.


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Monday 17th May 2021

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints against police officers have been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct for investigation, by each police force in England and Wales in each year from 2015 to date.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

The Home Office does not hold data on IOPC investigations. The Independent Office of Police Conduct will write to my hon. Friend and I will place a copy of the letter in the Library of the House.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Mar 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

"I support entirely the need to make sure that sentences fit the crime, but is not the reality that courts have huge backlogs and are reluctant to jail people who should be in jail, because they know that our prisons are overcrowded? Does not this Government’s failure on courts and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Mar 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

"I wonder whether the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South West (Stuart Anderson) has actually hit on something that might be helpful to the House. There are many aspects of the Bill that we all agree on. If only the really divisive aspects that the Home Secretary has put in were …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Mar 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

"We will try to get back to some sense of reality after the nonsense we have just heard.

This is a really important and wide-ranging Bill, and there are many aspects that I and my colleagues welcome. I start by paying tribute to my hon. Friends the Members for Halifax …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Jun 2020
Windrush Compensation Scheme

"First, the Home Secretary, in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi), conflated something that the previous Labour Government had apparently said about people who were here illegally with the Windrush generation. One of the reasons that what happened with the Windrush generation caused such public …..."
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