Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were made in the final quarter of (a) 2019, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

The number of passport applications received is published quarterly in HM Passport Office’s transparency data. The most recent published data can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-passport-office-data-q4-2022.