Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for British passports were awaiting issuance more than (a) 10 weeks, (b) 14 weeks, (c) 18 weeks, (d) 26 weeks and (e) 39 weeks after the application as of 1 April 2022.

The information requested is not currently held in a reportable format and could therefore only be obtained at disproportionate cost.