Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were defined as work in progress on 7 July 2014.
Information obtained from management data from Her Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO)
indicates that passport applications which were work in progress at close of
business on 7 July 2014 stood at 508, 625. HMPO have been working to address
this year's significant increase in demand for passports. According to HMPO
data, work in progress as at close of business on 16 July was 450,340.