Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many first passports have been issued to British children born overseas in each of the last three years; what the average length of time was to process applications from each overseas country in each of the last three years; and if she will make a statement.

Information on the number of first time passports issued to children overseas and average processing times are set out in the table below.

Due to the way management information was captured previously it is not possible to provide comparative data for the number of passports issued to children overseas before January 2014 or a breakdown of processing times by country prior to January 2015.