Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) Where passports are necessary, we should reduce their cost; £53.50 is just too much for some families - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) Of course, many UK and foreign students do not have passports, nor do they want the expense of getting - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) for the scheme is clear, for the reasons that your Lordships set out, with an increasing number of applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hay of Ballyore (DUP - Life peer) Online applications can be completed within 20 working days. - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Belmont (DUP - Life peer) Some, who have never been to or lived in the Irish Republic, can quickly apply for and receive Irish passports - Speech Link
3: Baroness Suttie (LD - Life peer) unnecessary—and frankly insulting, as the noble Lord, Lord Hay, said—previous obstacles to acquiring UK passports - Speech Link
May. 23 2024
Source Page: HM Passport Office data: Q1 2024Found: HMPO_02: UK and International applications for new, renewed, replacement, updated or extended UK passports
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2022 to Question 7920 on Passports: Applications, what the average waiting times were for a passport in (a) April 2021, (b) February 2022 and (c) February 2023.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Since April 2021, passport customers using the standard service in the UK have been advised to allow ten weeks to get their passport.
The percentage of customers who received their passport within this published processing timeframe in the months requested is shown below:
April 2021: 99.4%
February 2022: 99.3%
February 2023: 99.7%
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) from the same period in 2021-22, with over 1,700 of them considered to be vulnerable; and over 6,700 applications - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Member for Strangford said, because of what is written in the passports that we are all supposed to be - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) Of the 370 total applications in the last quarter, only 4% used the overseas route. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) What about the applications that are currently outstanding but were initiated before this order comes - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barker (LD - Life peer) for changing the name and registered sex of transgender people on birth certificates, identity cards, passports - Speech Link
Feb. 29 2024
Source Page: HM Passport Office data: Q4 2023Found: HMPO_02: UK and International applications for new, renewed, replacement, updated or extended UK passports
May. 23 2024
Source Page: HM Passport Office data: Q1 2024Found: This document contains data on: passport application intake volumes by month domestic and overseas applications
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: Definition of 'the customer': caseworker guidanceFound: staff how to interpret the term ‘the customer’ when reading internal guidance on processing passport applications
Asked by: Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat - St Albans)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the impact of removing digitised signatures from UK passports issued after January 2017 on the online renewal process for DVLA photocard licences.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The impact of His Majesty’s Passport Office no longer collecting digital signatures for passports on driving licence applications has been minimal. Around 70 per cent of driving licence renewal applications are made online.
The DVLA also has an online service which allows customers applying for a first provisional driving licence to upload their own digital photograph and signature. Customers using the DVLA’s renew a photocard licence service can also upload a new signature or use an existing one.
The DVLA is focused on delivering further improvements to enable even more customers to use its online services. The exact order of implementing service improvements will be based on where the DVLA can add the most value to customers.