Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport renewals for residents in (a) Airdrie and Shotts constituency, (b) Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK have been completed within the three weeks from receipt in (i) 2009, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011, (iv) 2012, (v) 2013 and (vi) 2014 to date.

The information is not held in the format requested for (a) to (c). Since
January 2014 to the end of June, 93% of straightforward passport renewal
applications in the UK were dealt with within 3 weeks and 98% within four weeks.