Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications processed by the Passport Office missed the three week target for processing in each month between 1 January and 30 June 2017.
Between 1 January 2017 and 30 June 2017, 1,352 UK passport applications not requiring further information took longer than three weeks to process.
This represents 0.06% of the 2.4 million UK applications issued in this period.