Passports: Applications

(asked on 21st July 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Royston Smith Portrait
Royston Smith
(Conservative - Southampton, Itchen)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were (a) submitted and (b) processed in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.

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

Data for applications submitted are published quarterly with the latest quarter available at :

HM Passport Office data: Q1 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

(b) Applications Processed

Jul-21

350,451

Aug-21

353,444

Sep-21

411,172

Oct-21

480,861

Nov-21

552,053

Dec-21

405,624

Jan-22

438,448

Feb-22

734,072

Mar-22

1,030,359

Apr-22

898,205

May-22

1,068,072

Jun-22

898,777

Between March and May, over 90% of applications were processed within 6 weeks, and 98.5% within the 10 week standard timeframe.

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