Passports

(asked on 11th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average waiting time for (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewals in each of the last four years.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 1st October 2014

We are unable to break the data down into first time applications and renewals,
although we can provide the data broken down by straightforward and
non-straightforward.

The table below shows the average waiting time for straightforward and
non-straightforward applications on an annual basis since 2010.

Average processing times in working days

Straightforward applications

Non-straightforward applications

2010

3.6

9.7

2011

4.1

9.7

2012

6.8

11.6

2013

3.8

7.9

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