Passports: Interviews
(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many face-to-face interviews were held at each passport centre in (1) 2010, (2) 2013, and (3) 2016.
All first time adult applications are interviewed so the number of interviews will vary according to the number of adult applications. The table below hows the annual number of Face to Face First Time Adult Interviews conducted per calendar year at Her Majesty’s Passport Office Interview locations. This data also reflects the reduction in Interview locations from 2010 to 2016.
2010 | 2013 | 2016 | |||
Office | FTA Interviews Conducted | Office | FTA Interviews Conducted | Office | FTA Interviews Conducted |
Aberdeen | 1,871 | Aberystwyth | 652 | Aberystwyth | 299 |
Aberystwyth | 549 | Belfast | 3,990 | Belfast | 3960 |
Andover | 10 | Birmingham | 21,436 | Birmingham | 25905 |
Armagh | 983 | Blackburn | 5,867 | Blackburn | 1204 |
Belfast | 3,717 | Bristol | 6,713 | Bristol | 1274 |
Berwick on Tweed | 73 | Carlisle | 1,055 | Chelmsford | 7206 |
Birmingham | 20,337 | Chelmsford | 9,827 | Coleraine | 113 |
Blackburn | 6,856 | Coleraine | 792 | Crawley | 1085 |
Bournemouth | 2,576 | Crawley | 6,988 | Dundee | 439 |
Brighton | 3,411 | Derby | 7,834 | Durham | 9873 |
Bristol | 4,797 | Dundee | 1,274 | Edinburgh | 6683 |
Bury St Edmunds | 423 | Durham | 9,702 | Glasgow | 9782 |
Carlisle | 1,250 | Edinburgh | 6,351 | Hull | 527 |
Chelmsford | 9,562 | Glasgow | 9,860 | IOW | 166 |
Cheltenham | 2,554 | Hull | 1,230 | Leeds | 16402 |
Coleraine | 1,235 | IOW | 349 | Leicester | 1579 |
Crawley | 6,094 | Kingston upon Hull | 244 | Liverpool | 12692 |
Derby | 6,909 | Leeds | 12,835 | London | 59434 |
Dover | 260 | Leicester | 6,743 | Luton | 10134 |
Dumfries | 139 | Liverpool | 8,660 | Maidstone | 6554 |
Dundee | 2,135 | London | 68,868 | Manchester | 3311 |
Edinburgh | 3,891 | Luton | 12,236 | Newport | 11494 |
Exeter | 2,626 | Maidstone | 6,673 | Norwich | 877 |
Glasgow | 9,467 | Manchester | 14,575 | Peterborough | 11519 |
Inverness | 818 | Newport | 7,103 | Plymouth | 6017 |
Ipswich | 2,374 | Newport IOW | 125 | Portsmouth | 8157 |
Kendal | 1,196 | Norwich | 2,190 | Reading | 11170 |
Kings Lynn | 904 | Peterborough | 7,293 | Salford Quays | 12211 |
Kingston upon Hull | 2,872 | Plymouth | 5,279 | Sheffield | 1686 |
Leeds | 10,784 | Portsmouth | 7,051 | Swansea | 318 |
Leicester | 5,887 | Reading | 13,153 | VIS Host* | 3675 |
Lincoln | 2,689 | Sheffield | 8,172 | Warwick | 203 |
Liverpool | 8,680 | Swansea | 1,689 | Wrexham | 470 |
London | 57,543 | VIS Host* | 2,030 | Yeovil | 314 |
Luton | 12,226 | Warwick | 1,119 | Total for 2016 | 246733 |
Maidstone | 6,768 | Wrexham | 1,906 | ||
Manchester | 13,288 | Yeovil | 1,420 | ||
Middlesbrough | 3,561 | Total for 2013 | 283,284 | ||
Newcastle | 6,756 | ||||
Newport | 5,767 | ||||
Newport IOW | 483 | ||||
Northampton | 3,840 | ||||
Norwich | 2,856 | ||||
Oban | 25 | ||||
Oxford | 3,074 | ||||
Peterborough | 3,839 | ||||
Plymouth | 1,870 | ||||
Portsmouth | 4,639 | ||||
Reading | 11,456 | ||||
Ripon | 545 | ||||
Scarborough | 174 | ||||
Selkirk | 309 | ||||
Sheffield | 7,180 | ||||
Shrewsbury | 1,895 | ||||
Sleaford | 144 | ||||
South Molton | 156 | ||||
St Austell | 1,584 | ||||
Stirling | 204 | ||||
Stoke on Trent | 3,494 | ||||
Swansea | 3,448 | ||||
Swindon | 1,993 | ||||
Warwick | 2,980 | ||||
Wick | 149 | ||||
Wrexham | 2,816 | ||||
Yeovil | 1,666 | ||||
York | 1,777 | ||||
Total for 2010 | 296,434 | ||||
*Video Interview Service, typically used in the more remote parts of the country. The interview is undertaken by Her Majesty’s Passport Office staff over a video link, and the customer is accompanied at all times by one of our partner organisations.