Pete Wishart – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pete Wishart on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the savings generated by closing passport offices in the last five years; and what estimate she has made of the total cost of (a) cancelled and (b) altered flights due to delayed passport applications in 2014.

James Brokenshire

No passport offices have been closed in the last five years.
Restructuring of passport operations between 2010 and 2012 entailed the closure
of some interview offices and relocation of the Newport passport office. These
changes realised annual savings of approximately £7.2 million per year.

We do not collect data on the costs of cancelled and altered flights