Passports: Applications
(asked on 15th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase the efficiency of the passport renewal process.
This question was answered on 14th April 2023
His Majesty’s Passport Office remains fully resourced following its significant increase of over 1200 staff between April 2021 and last summer. With the continued introduction of process improvements, HM Passport Office has processed more than two million applications across January and February, with over 99.5% of standard UK applications being processed within ten weeks and 95.5% being processed within three weeks.