Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) standard and (b) fast-track passport applications were made in each of the last five years.
I refer to the table below which provides the volume of (a) standard and (b) fast-track passport applications received by Her Majesty’s Passport Office in each of the last five years.
Year | *Standard | Fast Track | |||
2010 | 4,976,745 | 184,332 | |||
2011 | 4,912,102 | 184,147 | |||
2012 | 4,855,678 | 213,088 | |||
2013 | 5,056,826 | 275,067 | |||
2014 | 5,313,409 | 401,320 | |||
Notes | |||||
*Standard applications exclude counter applications and collectives | |||||
Intake is cashiered intake | |||||
Time period is 1st January to 31 December | |||||
UK applications only |