Chris Law – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-03-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of interviews for a first-time adult passport application she expects to be conducted on a face-to-face basis in (a) England, (b) Northern Ireland, (c) Scotland and (d) Wales after the proposed closure of 15 HM Passport Office interview offices.

James Brokenshire

Based upon the number of interviews conducted in 2015 (222,264), following the changes to Her Majesty’s Passport Office interview office estate it is expected that 212,767 (95.72%) interviews will be conducted face-to-face.

This would be broken down by country to:

England: 183,952 (97%) face-to-face interviews

Northern Ireland: 3,965 (100%) face-to-face interviews

Scotland: 15,496 (85.83%) face-to-face interviews

Wales: 9,354 (85.10%) face-to-face interviews