Passports

(asked on 4th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the target time is for dealing with passport applications.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 3rd July 2014

Expected service standards for passport applications are given at
www.gov.uk.

Information in respect of the Member's constituency is not available and the
cost of collating it would be disproportionate.

The table below shows the proportions of UK passport applications in each of
the last 12 months which have been processed within the published service
standards.

2013

% straightforward applications processed within the published timescales

% non-straightforward applications processed within the published timescales

June

100%

97.8%

July

100%

96.9%

August

100%

96.4%

September

100%

96.0%

October

100%

95.9%

November

99.99%

96.5%

December

99.99%

96.3%

2014

January

99.99%

96.8%

February

99.98%

98.1%

March

99.95%

96.8%

April

98.59%

99.6%

May

92.26%

93.9%

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