Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of passport applications submitted to HM Passport Office were processed in (a) less than four, (b) less than six, (c) less than ten and (d) more than ten weeks in each month since January 2022.

Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.

Between March and May, 98.5% of UK applications processed were completed within ten weeks, and 91% in six weeks..