Written Question·Home Office·UIN 182353
Passports: Applications
Tabled: 24 April 2023
Answered: 3 May 2023
Question
Peter Kyle
Labour — Hove and Portslade
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the availability of appointments for priority services at the Passport Office before 6 May 2023.
Answer
Robert JenrickAppointments continue to be offered throughout this period of industrial action, and new appointments are released every day. As is always the case, for anyone that requires a passport on compassionate grounds for urgent travel, our services are available.
HM Passport Office has processed almost 2.6 million applications up to the end of March 2023, with 99.6% of standard UK applications being processed within ten weeks and over 94.6% being processed within three weeks.