Passports: Applications

(asked on 4th September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2022 to Question 7920 on Passports: Applications, what the average waiting times were for a passport in (a) April 2021, (b) February 2022 and (c) February 2023.


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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 12th September 2023

Since April 2021, passport customers using the standard service in the UK have been advised to allow ten weeks to get their passport.

The percentage of customers who received their passport within this published processing timeframe in the months requested is shown below:

April 2021: 99.4%

February 2022: 99.3%

February 2023: 99.7%

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