Passports: Applications
(asked on 1st March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications took longer than three weeks to process in the final quarter of 2022.
This question was answered on 8th March 2023
Of the British passports issued in the final quarter of 2022, 134,551 were from standard UK applications that had taken longer than three weeks. This represents approximately 12.7% of the total passports printed under this service during that period.
The published guidance for processing applications under this service is up to ten weeks.
*The processing time includes 2-days for delivery of the passport to the customer.