David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the volume of overseas applications for passports has been in each month since her Department assumed responsibility for such applications.
James Brokenshire
The table below shows the number of overseas passport applications received by Her Majesty’s Passport Office each month since it assumed responsibility for such applications.
|
Month |
Number of overseas applications received* |
|
December 2012 |
145 |
|
January 2013 |
1014 |
|
February 2013 |
2401 |
|
March 2013 |
2767 |
|
April 2013 |
3543 |
|
May 2013 |
4662 |
|
June 2013 |
5862 |
|
July 2013 |
7053 |
|
August 2013 |
7216 |
|
September 2013 |
11035 |
|
October 2013 |
13832 |
|
November 2013 |
10881 |
|
December 2013 |
12324 |
|
January 2014 |
26897 |
|
February 2014 |
43327 |
|
March 2014 |
40935 |
*Note: HMPO took responsibility for overseas passports applications in April 2011, commenced the repatriation of the printing of overseas passports in summer 2011, but only commenced repatriating application processing in December 2012 with that repatriation completed in February 2014.
