Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the average length a time a person should expect to wait for an application for a (a) new passport, (b) renewal of their passport and (c) a fast track passport.

Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks to get their British passport when applying under the standard service, as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic. This advice applies to all first-time and renewal applications from the UK.

The Fast Track service is a one-week service