Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average time between applying for and the issue of passports for residents of (a) Airdrie and Shotts constituency, (b) Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in (i) 2009, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011, (iv) 2012, (v) 2013 and (vi) 2014 to date.

Her Majesty's Passport Office hold data at a UK level and information is not held in the format requested for points (a) to (c) above.

On point (d), the information is set out in the Performance section of the Annual Report and Accounts presented to Parliament on a financial year basis:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/identity-and-passport-service-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118751/ips-annual-report-2012.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ips-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-passport-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014