Passports: Applications
(asked on 21st July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications exceeded HM Passport Office’s service delivery timescales in (a) June 2022 and (b) June 2019.
This question was answered on 5th September 2022
Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.
Across the first 6 months of 2022, Her Majesty’s Passport Office processed 97.7% of UK standard applications within 10 weeks.