Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were received by HM Passport Office in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.

Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HM Passport Office) received 6,398,160 UK passport applications in 2014. In 2015 HM Passport Office received 6,946,504 applications and in 2016, HM Passport Office received 7,091,695 applications.

I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the information in the attached link where applications are shown by month of intake.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmpo-transparency-data-august-2017