Passports: Applications
(asked on 14th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional steps her Department is taking to ensure people receive their passports within published timescales.
This question was answered on 22nd July 2022
Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks to get their passport. Across the first 6 months of 2022 HMPO processed 97.7% of UK standard applications within 10 weeks.
Her Majesty’s Passport Office has added 850 staff since April 2021. This has helped to ensure that more passport applications are being processed than ever before.
Processing capacity will increase further, with an additional 350 staff arriving within the summer.