Asked by: Martin McCluskey (Labour - Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of delays in issuing (a) new passports and (b) renewals.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
His Majesty’s Passport Office is exceeding its performance indicator of 98.5% of standard UK passport applications, where no further information is required, being processed within three weeks. We are working to ensure that these performance levels continue.
Performance data can be found in the most recent Transparency Data release at: HM Passport Office data: Q1 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Martin McCluskey (Labour - Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to end the use of hotels for asylum seekers.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
This government will end the costly chaos in the asylum system by cleaning the previous government’s backlog of claims, in order to end hotel use and save the taxpayer billions. We aim to return to the use of long-standing dispersed accommodation as soon as possible.