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registered interest
date	12/10/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports have been issued to (a) British subjects, (b) British protected persons and (c) British overseas citizens in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	11487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>The requested figures are shown in theattached table. The figures include all British passports issued by Her Majesty’s Passport Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the three categories requested.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/10/2015 16:03:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name 11487 - Table.docx title Passports issued by HMPO & FCO
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

390835

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2015 to Question 5846, what (a) proportion and (b) number of applications for a passport for a child overseas take longer than eight months to process.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	7531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>A total of 49,173 international child passport applications finished processing in January-June 2015. Of this total, 1,068 (2.2%) took longer than eight months to be processed.</p><p>The processing time is the length of time from receipt of the application to the passport being printed.</p><p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO) must be fully satisfied that all appropriate checks have been completed successfully prior to the issuance of passport facilities. This is particularly important in relation to child applications as part of Her Majesty’s Passport Office responsibility to protect potentially vulnerable children, including those potentially at risk of child trafficking and to maintain the integrity of the British Passport.</p><p>These checks can require the provision of information from other agencies overseas – particularly in complex applications such as surrogacy cases.</p><p>Delays in the provision of this information to HMPO can lead to significantly extended timeframes in processing applications.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 21/07/2015 13:07:49 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

388295

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK passports were issued to people resident outside the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	6042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office took over issuing passports to British citizens overseas on a phased basis between October 2012 and April 2014. As a result data relating to the period before April 2014 could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The number of passports issued for British citizens applying from overseas since April 2014 is set out in the table below.</p><p>Passports – Overseas Applications</p><p>Year Total passports passed for issue</p><p>2014 (April – December) 302,445</p><p>2015 (January- June) 237,107</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/07/2015 15:28:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

388300

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) number and (b) proportion of applications for a passport for a child overseas take longer than (a) three, (b) four and (c) six months to be processed.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	5846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>A total of 49,173 international child passport applications finished processing in January-June 2015. Of this total, <del class="ministerial">2,418 (4.9%)</del> <ins class="ministerial">3,242 (6.6%)</ins> took longer than three months to be processed, <del class="ministerial">1,780 (3.6%)</del> <ins class="ministerial">2,539 (5.2%)</ins> took longer than four months to be processed, and <del class="ministerial">944 (1.9%)</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,657 (3.4%)</ins> took longer than six months to be processed.</p><p>The processing time is the length of time from receipt of the application to the passport being printed. For international child passport applications processed in the same period, the average processing time was 19.4 working days. Information is not held on the time between receipt of application and interview date as the date of interview can be subject to customer availability.</p><p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office must be fully satisfied that all appropriate checks have been completed successfully prior to the issuance of passport facilities. This is particularly important in relation to child applications as part of Her Majesty’s Passport Office responsibility to protect potentially vulnerable children, including those potentially at risk of child trafficking and to maintain the integrity of the British Passport.</p><p>These checks can require the provision of information from other agencies overseas – particularly in complex applications such as surrogacy cases.</p><p>Delays in the provision of this information to HMPO can lead to significantly extended timeframe in processing applications.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/07/2015 15:19:26 question first ministerially corrected 05/08/2015 13:22:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 14230 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

388301

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: British Nationals Abroad
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 review the application processing timescale published by HM Passport Office for passport applications for children who are overseas.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	5847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The expected turnaround times for all applications are subject to ongoing review and every effort is made to ensure that cases, particularly involving children overseas, are dealt with as quickly as possible. We will shortly be publishing updated expected turnaround times on www.gov.uk for all application types covering 133 countries.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/07/2015 15:26:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

388302

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time is for processing a passport application for a child overseas from the initial application to the interview in connection with that application.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	5848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>A total of 49,173 international child passport applications finished processing in January-June 2015. Of this total, <del class="ministerial">2,418 (4.9%)</del> <ins class="ministerial">3,242 (6.6%)</ins> took longer than three months to be processed, <del class="ministerial">1,780 (3.6%)</del> <ins class="ministerial">2,539 (5.2%)</ins> took longer than four months to be processed, and <del class="ministerial">944 (1.9%)</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,657 (3.4%)</ins> took longer than six months to be processed.</p><p>The processing time is the length of time from receipt of the application to the passport being printed. For international child passport applications processed in the same period, the average processing time was 19.4 working days. Information is not held on the time between receipt of application and interview date as the date of interview can be subject to customer availability.</p><p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office must be fully satisfied that all appropriate checks have been completed successfully prior to the issuance of passport facilities. This is particularly important in relation to child applications as part of Her Majesty’s Passport Office responsibility to protect potentially vulnerable children, including those potentially at risk of child trafficking and to maintain the integrity of the British Passport.</p><p>These checks can require the provision of information from other agencies overseas – particularly in complex applications such as surrogacy cases.</p><p>Delays in the provision of this information to HMPO can lead to significantly extended timeframe in processing applications.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/07/2015 15:19:26 question first ministerially corrected 05/08/2015 14:35:08 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 15266 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard