Passports: Waiting Lists
(asked on 15th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what change there has been in the number of passport applications waiting for more than two months to be processed between 1 July 2013 and 2015.
Due to the way that data on passport applications is captured, it is not possible to show the proportion of applications taking over two months to process. However, the numbers and proportions of straightforward properly completed passport applications taking over 20 days are represented in the table below.
Period | Total Processed | More than & equal to 20 days | % more than & equal 20 days | |||||
August 2013- July 2014 | 3,896,735 | 197,110 | 5% | |||||
August 2014-July 2015 | 4,448,436 | 91,101 | 2% | |||||
Overall | 8,345,171 | 288,211 | 3% | |||||
Days are working days and exclude bank holidays Straightforward cases are those that do not involve a complex nationality decision and where the customer has provided a complete application with all required documentary evidence Non-straightforward applications are not included in the figures above. | ||||||||