Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many claims for compensation the Passport Office (a) approved and (b) rejected between April 2014 and April 2015; and how much compensation was (i) claimed and (ii) paid in relation to those claims in that period.
Records are not held centrally on the outcome of individual claims and data is not available in the format requested at (a), (b), and (i). In the financial year 2014-15, Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HM Passport Office) paid compensation totalling £250, 010.67.
HM Passport Office only normally offers compensation for financial loss as a result of delays in its guaranteed (Fast Track and Premium) services; or to reimburse any out of pocket expenses incurred by a customer as a direct consequence of an error or omission by a member of staff.
Full details on HMPO compensation can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/compensation-and-complaints-handling