Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewal applications have been received by HM Passport Office since the beginning of the current financial year; and what proportion of such applications were completed and dispatched within (i) three and (ii) four weeks.

During April and May 2014, Her Majesty's Passport Office received:

(a) 319,639 new passport applications.
(b) 1,044,840 passport renewal applications.

Her Majesty's Passport Office does not hold passport application processing
data in the format requested, although we can advise that 96.1% of straightforward
applications were processed within 3 weeks and 96.9% of non straightforward
passport applications were processed within the 6-week target.