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.

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