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1673697

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of passports being damaged by foreign border control agents have been reported to his Department in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	4226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>Where a passport is declared as damaged as part of an application to replace a British passport, His Majesty’s Passport Office does not require information to be provided as to the cause of the damage for the application to progress.</p><p>Should a customer choose to inform HM Passport Office of the cause of damage to their passport and the information be recorded, the data is not held in a reportable format and could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/12/2023 16:37:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1660481

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the average waiting time for passport renewals.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	199350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>People are receiving their passports in good time. Between January and August 2023, 99.3% of customers using the standard UK service received their passport within the published processing timeframe of ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2023 09:58:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1653819

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) adult and (b) child passports her Department has processed in the last twelve months.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	194679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>The number of passport applications received is published quarterly in HM Passport Office’s transparency data. The most recent published data can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fhm-passport-office-data-q4-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIPSPQs%40hmpo.gov.uk%7C71bcbfb1b2284177202708db1b07e221%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638133492883592329%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=y9uZJQqluPm5wfIxQLhwp0SSE%2BmHeI7zsug5lnTCoBM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-passport-office-data-q4-2022(opens in a new tab)</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/09/2023 14:17:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1628234

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were made between 1 January and 31 March 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	185232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p><strong><br> </strong>The data requested is due to be released shortly. Once published, it will be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIPSPQs%40hmpo.gov.uk%7C6fe8d2b0e4634ca55fd308db56c65fad%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638199182219778237%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=TPV%2Furv8NOvzCuMlgck%2Fo9AzUBXnJJK8EWBuIcnsDYE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/05/2023 14:27:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1606407

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits for early renewal of passports and reduction of pressure on HM Passport Office staff of allowing up to six months remaining validity of old passports to be added to new passports.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	171360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>When renewing a British passport between 2001 and September 2018, up to nine months of remaining validity of the old passport could be added to the new passport. Renewed adult passports could therefore be valid for up to 10 years and 9 months.</p><p>The UK was the last country to carry over unused validity to a new passport. However, international civil aviation guidelines are that an adult passport should be valid for a maximum of 10 years, and a passport for a child should be issued for a maximum of five years.</p><p>Alongside side this, each country, or group of countries, may set out a requirement for passport validity as a condition of entry. This includes passports held by a third-country national, such as a British citizen, not being permitted to enter countries within the Schengen Area with a passport that was issued more than ten years previously. For these reasons, there are currently no plans to return to the policy of adding remaining validity to new passports.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/03/2023 14:10:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1603083

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications took longer than three weeks to process in (a) 2019, (b) 2022 and (c) the final quarter of 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	162494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>In 2019*, 382,390 passports issued through standard UK or international services, which was 6% of the total printed, were from applications that had taken longer than three weeks. In the final quarter of 2019, 102,647 passports issued through standard UK or international services, which was 9.7% of the total printed, had taken longer than three weeks. The published processing guidance for standard UK applications at that time was three weeks, with the exception of adults applying for their first British passport who were advised that it took six weeks.</p><p>In 2022, 2,620,038 passports issued through the standard UK or international services, or 34.5% of the total printed, had taken longer than three weeks. However, no application in 2022 was subject to a three-week processing timeframe. With approximately 5 million people having delayed their passport application due to the restrictions upon international travel caused by COVID-19, this led to unprecedented passport demand in 2022. Since April 2021 the published processing guidance for all standard UK applications has been ten weeks.</p><p>Across January and February 2023, 95.5% of standard UK passport applications were processed within three weeks.</p><p>*The data held for 2019 is in working days, and the data held for 2022 in calendar days. This includes an assumed delivery period once the passport is printed (two days in the UK, seven days overseas).</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/03/2023 12:59:36 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1604589

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of passport applications that will need to be submitted between 15 March 2023 and the end of the year; how many applications there were in the same period last year; and whether she plans to amend staffing arrangements to meet the service delivery targets in place.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	166126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>With approximately 5 million people having delayed their passport application due to the restrictions upon international travel caused by COVID-19, the elevated demand for passports will continue throughout 2023.</p><p>HM Passport Office has processed more than two million applications across January and February, with over 99.5% of standard UK applications being processed within ten weeks and 95.5% being processed within three weeks.</p><p>Given the exceptional cause of this demand, the exact volumes and profile of when this will arrive is less predictable than in a normal year. The current expectations are that demand will be within 6.1 million and 7.1 million between the weeks ending 19 March 2023 to 31 December 2023. Between 15 March 2022 and 31 December 2022, HM Passport Office received 6,484,414 passport applications.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/03/2023 17:19:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1602309

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken to (a) issue or renew passports, (b) arrange appointments to verify applicants’ identity and (c) respond to correspondence from hon. Members on the time taken to process applications.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	161362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2023 answer text <p>HM Passport Office has processed more than 1.67 million UK standard applications across January and February with a total printed output of 1.86 million. Over 99.5% of standard UK applications processed within ten weeks and 95.5% within 3 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/03/2023 12:56:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1585320

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the HM Passport Office will replace instances of the phrase Her Majesty to His Majesty on newly-printed UK passports.
	tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
	tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
	uin	142850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>The changes will be implemented in a phased way from this summer.</p><p>British passports issued in the name of Her Majesty the Queen will continue to remain valid travel documents until their expiry date.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/02/2023 16:44:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1567059

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to provide guidance to airline carriers on processing travellers' passports consistently.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	123916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>Under the Carriers Liability scheme, carriers have responsibilities to ensure their passengers are properly documented for travel to the UK and may be subject to charges if they allow passengers to travel without a correct document. Details of the scheme are published on gov.uk.</p><p>To assist carriers in their duties, the Home Office issues core guidance regarding the necessary checks carriers are expected to undertake, this is circulated directly to carriers. In addition, the Home Office regularly train carriers and their handling agents, both at arrival ports in the UK and locations overseas, in documentary requirements and detection techniques. This training is complemented by published alerts to highlight any new trends or arising issues, and by a 24-hour carrier call service to help advise carriers on specific documentation concerns.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/01/2023 17:34:59 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord