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61889

registered interest
date	13/06/2014
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 target she has set for the time in which applicants should receive a call back from the Passport Office when making enquiries about applications.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	200723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Her Majesty's Passport Office's current guideline for returning calls is to do so within 48 hours. Her Majesty's Passport Office gives priority to those with the most immediate travel plans.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 14/07/2014 16:13:37 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 2178 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

61759

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
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 revenue has been received by the Passport Office for (a) standard passport applications, (b) fast-track applications and (c) premium service applications in (i) 1 January 2012 to 31 May 2012, (ii) 1 January 2013 to 31 May 2013 and (iii) 1 January 2014 to 31 May 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	200525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the requested information: <br><br>£m Standard Fast-track Premium<br>1Jan – 31 May 2012 173.9 7.4 14.9<br>1Jan – 31 May 2013 170.9 9.9 17.2<br>1 Jan –31 May 2014 202.3 12.4 13.8<br><br>Figures are based on cashiered income, without any accounting adjustments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/07/2014 16:54:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1841 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

61762

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
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) standard passport applications, (b) fast-track applications and (c) premium service applications were processed in (i) 1 January 2012 to 31 May 2012, (ii) 1 January 2013 to 31 May 2013 and (iii) 1 January 2014 o 31 May 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	200528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The information requested is shown in the following table. This also includes data up until 30 June for each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 30/09/2014 15:00:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name PQ200528 table.doc title Processed passport application services previous answer version 1835 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

61763

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
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 much has been spent on courier services for passports outside the DX contract since 1 January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	200529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Her Majesty's Passport Office has incurred no costs outside contractual <br>arrangements with DX since 1 Januar</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 14/07/2014 16:18:08 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1834 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

61773

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
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 of (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewal applications were received by HM Passport Office in each week since 6 January 2014; and what proportion of those applications (i) were completed in three weeks, (ii) were completed in four weeks and (iii) remain outstanding for each of these weeks.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	200466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p>Table 1 sets out the volume of new and renewal passports on a weekly basis since 5 January 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2 provides the proportion of straightforward cases dealt with within three weeks , four weeks and over four weeks. The information is not available by breakdown of application type.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name PQ200466.table1.fin.doc title Volume of new & renewal passports 2 file name PQ200466.Table2.ab.dc.doc title Proportion of straightforward cases question first answered 11/08/2014 15:36:28 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1843 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

61776

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed by HM Passport Office on 1 January (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	200368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The formal record for workforce data is made on the last day of each calendar <br>month.<br><br>The data as of 31 December in each year were as follows.<br><br>31 December 2010: 3,700 full-time equivalents<br>31 December 2011: 3,286 full-time equivalents<br>31 December 2012: 3,164 full-time equivalents<br>31 December 2013: 3,333 full-time equivalents<br><br><br>These figures are for permanent civil servants employed by HMPO, including part <br>year appointments and permanent members of staff employed on contracts for nine <br>months of the year. This excludes staff on secondment or loan, and agency and <br>temporary staff - with these staff included, the March 2014 figure is 3,444.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 15:48:05 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1833 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

61779

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed by HM Passport Office on (a) 1 January, (b) 1 February, (c) 1 March, (d) 1 April, (e) 1 May and (f) 1 June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	200371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The formal record for workforce data is made on the last day of each calendar <br>month.<br>Her Majesty's Passport Office has employed the following numbers of full-time <br>equivalents <br>(FTEs).<br>(a) On 31 December 2013: 3,333<br>(b) On 31 January 2014: 3,390<br>(c) On 28 February 2014: 3,434<br>(d) On 31 March 2014: 3,469<br>(e) On 30 April 2014: 3,489<br>(f) On 31 May 2014: 3,506<br><br>In order to ensure that the data is reported on a consistent basis, figures for <br>April and May figures include 196 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) corporate services<br>staff that transferred to the Home Office on 1 April 2014. This was part of a restructure <br>of the Home Office Corporate Services function. <br><br>Figures are for permanent civil servants employed by Her Majesty's Passport <br>Office, including Part Year Appointments and permanent members of staff <br>employed on contracts for 9 months of the year. This excludes staff on secondment<br>or loan, and agency and temporary staff – with these staff included, the March 2014<br>figure is 3,444.<br><br>Please note, Her Majesty's Passport Office records migrated to the Department’s <br>strategic record system during this period and are subject to enhanced validation <br>checks. Several months in this time series have a variance of +/- 2 FTE.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 21/07/2014 16:03:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1828 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

61357

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
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 much the recently employed additional staff in passport offices are estimated to cost.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	200287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Her Majesty's Passport Office have been training and redeploying staff from <br>other duties within the Agency, from other parts of the wider Home Office, and <br>in the case of one individual another Government department, to meet the <br>exceptional levels of passport demand. There will be some additional costs <br>relating to staff where they will be temporarily working away from their normal <br>workplace and where overtime is worked by staff from other parts of the <br>Department. At this time it is not possible to put a reliable estimate on <br>these additional costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 14:11:37 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1295 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

61397

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
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 applications for (a) new passports and (b) passport renewals there have been in the last year; and what the annual change in such figures has been.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	200217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>During the period between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014, Her Majesty's Passport Office <br />received <del class="ministerial">1,446,983</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,425,885</ins> first time passport applications and <del class="ministerial">4,528,751</del> <ins class="ministerial">4,461,343</ins> passport <br />renewal applications.<br /><br />This compares with 1,346,246 first time applications and 4,036,267 passport <br />renewal applications during the period between 1 June 2012 and 31 May 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 14:03:02 question first ministerially corrected 02/09/2014 14:35:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 8681 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

61471

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
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) new passport applications and (b) passport renewal applications have been received by HM Passport Office since the beginning of the current financial year; and what proportion of such applications were completed and dispatched within (i) three and (ii) four weeks.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	200199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>During April and May 2014, Her Majesty's Passport Office received:<br><br>(a) 319,639 new passport applications.<br>(b) 1,044,840 passport renewal applications.<br><br>Her Majesty's Passport Office does not hold passport application processing <br>data in the format requested, although we can advise that 96.1% of straightforward <br>applications were processed within 3 weeks and 96.9% of non straightforward <br>passport applications were processed within the 6-week target.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 14:12:53 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1309 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier