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: 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: 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
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: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It can offer support with visa applications if the individual is based in London, Liverpool, Preston - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) to be made for the fact that Eritrean refugees in Sudan will almost certainly not be able to produce passports - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) The service standard for family reunion applications is 12 weeks, but I am told that many applications - Speech Link
4: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) As a result, any passports remaining there are having to be held in secure storage. - Speech Link
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
Mar. 20 2024
Source Page: Update on passport application feesFound: to £112.50 for adults and £77.00 for children The new fees will help ensure that income from these applications
Mar. 20 2024
Source Page: Update on passport application feesFound: to £112.50 for adults and £77.00 for children The new fees will help ensure that income from these applications
Feb. 15 2024
Source Page: Confirming consent from third parties: caseworker guidanceFound: third parties: caseworker guidance This document tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with applications