Speeches

Cathy Jamieson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passport applications have been dealt with within the target timescale in each of the last 12 months.

James Brokenshire

Expected service standards for passport applications are given at
www.gov.uk.

Information in respect of the Member’s constituency is not available and the
cost of collating it would be disproportionate.

The table below shows the proportions of UK passport applications in each of
the last 12 months which have been processed within the published service
standards.

2013

% straightforward applications processed within the published timescales

% non-straightforward applications processed within the published timescales

June

100%

97.8%

July

100%

96.9%

August

100%

96.4%

September

100%

96.0%

October

100%

95.9%

November

99.99%

96.5%

December

99.99%

96.3%

2014

January

99.99%

96.8%

February

99.98%

98.1%

March

99.95%

96.8%

April

98.59%

99.6%

May

92.26%

93.9%