Speeches

Bob Ainsworth – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bob Ainsworth on 2014-06-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of (a) adult and (b) child passport renewal applications were processed within the three-week service standard in each of the last six months.

James Brokenshire

he table below shows the number of straightforward passport applications
received within the UK which were processed within 3 weeks.

Month

Proportion of straightforward applications processed within 3 weeks

Dec 13

99.99%

Jan 14

99.99%

Feb 14

99.98%

Mar 14

99.95%

Apr 14

99.59%

May 14

92.26%

Her Majesty’s Passport Office does not hold a further breakdown of this information by
application type. The cost of bringing that information together would be
disproportionate and so it is not possible to provide the information you have
requested.