Passports: Delivery Services

(asked on 20th July 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the service delivery standards are for the companies contracted by her Department to deliver passports to applicants; and what recent assessment she has made of whether those standards have been met.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 5th September 2022

The service delivery standards and recent performance against these are as per below:

Fed Ex

SLA Description

Target

Performance June 2022

24-hour delivery (Urgent services)

99.75%

99.83%

48-hour delivery (Standard service)

99.75%

99.76%

DHL UK

SLA Description

Target

Performance June 2022

Attempted delivery within 2 working days after collection, for addresses in mainland UK.

99.75%

99.93%

Attempted delivery within 3 working days after collection, for addresses in all other UK locations.

99.5%

99.96%

DHL Global Forwarding (International)

SLA description

Target

Performance May 2022

Dispatched packages that delivery/redelivery was attempted to the correct address and within the timeframe agreed.

99.75%

99.96%

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