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1488375

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force: Labour Turnover
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 16th June 2022 to Question 15307, on UK Border Force: Recruitment, how many members of staff (a) Border Force has recruited and (b) have left Border Force, in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	34980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>Border Force has increased its workforce by 3% over 2020/2021 financial year to over 9,300 staff, with a large proportion of those staff trained and deployed to front line operations.</p><ul><li>For security reasons, we do not give out figures of how many staff are working at a given time.</li><li>Border Force keeps its resourcing and staffing numbers under constant review in light of passenger arrival data provided by carriers and port operator.</li></ul><p>Border Force has continued to build staffing levels during 2021/2022 and recruitment will continue throughout 2022.</p> answering member constituency Stevenage answering member printed Stephen McPartland question first answered 15/07/2022 11:11:10 answering member 4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1469255

registered interest
date	10/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
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 received in (a) April and (b) May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	15737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>The volume of passport applications received is published quarterly in HM Passport Office’s transparency data.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent published data can be found at the following link: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fhm-passport-office-data-q1-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CLinda.Allum%40hmpo.gov.uk%7Ca3e73985c451433d797e08da4d28a6f6%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637907134263378925%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=VYLm3Ff88IHDD3p5LEA72p6mEDbpFEvARL69BMjfaJA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-passport-office-data-q1-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 16/06/2022 08:31:42 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 6540 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1467758

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
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 have been submitted to the Passport Office in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2022 answer text <p>The volume of passport applications received is published quarterly in HM Passport Office’s transparency data. The most recent published data can be found at the following link: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fhm-passport-office-data-q1-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIPSPQs%40hmpo.gov.uk%7Cc60348bfcc654ef845b508da4867dc53%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637901908147814006%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Dj4k8nuIBbfF1OZkHPQuxP2iHrBWCQ%2Bm5GKR5Drivvo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-passport-office-data-q1-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 09/06/2022 10:56:56 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1467763

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
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 6 June 2022 to Question 9065 on Passports: applications, how many and what proportion of passport applications were dealt with within 10 weeks.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.</p><p>Between March and May, over 90% of applications processed were completed within six weeks, with approximately 98.5% completed within ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/06/2022 09:12:19 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 5365 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1467764

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of current passport applications are not processed within 10 weeks.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.</p><p>Between March and May, over 90% of applications processed were completed within six weeks, with approximately 98.5% completed within ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/06/2022 09:04:08 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 5364 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1467765

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passport applications are processed within six to 10 weeks.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2022 answer text <p>Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic. 98.6% of all passport applications continue to be dealt with well within 10 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 09/06/2022 11:02:33 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1465848

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the longest amount of time it has taken for the Passport Office to process a passport application in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>A British passport cannot be issued until all checks are satisfactorily completed. These checks include those intended to protect the passport system against fraud and misrepresentation.</p><p> </p><p>If further information is required to enable an application to be progressed in light of these checks, then it will take longer to conclude as a British Passport will not be issued until HM Passport Office is satisfied of the applicant’s identity and that they are entitled to hold one.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/06/2022 07:48:24 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1465850

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
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 have been received by the Passport Office but have not been processed for a period of longer than six weeks as of 25 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic. The vast majority of all passport applications continue to be dealt with well within 10 weeks</p><p><br> HM Passport Office has increased its staffing numbers by 650 since April 2021 and is in the process of recruiting a further 550. This has helped to ensure passport applications continue to be processed in higher numbers than ever before, with the processing of almost two million applications being completed across March and April 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/06/2022 07:45:11 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1465851

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passport applications received by the Passport Office have been processed by the Passport Office in under six weeks in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>Ahead of unrestricted international travel returning, HM Passport Office prepared extensively to serve an unprecedented number of customers, with 9.5 million British passport applications forecasted throughout 2022.</p><p>These preparations, which include the recruitment of 650 additional staff since April 2021 and with plans in place to recruit a further 550 by this summer, have ensured that passport applications can be processed in higher numbers than ever before. This was demonstrated in March and April 2022 when HM Passport Office achieved record outputs by completing the processing of two million applications.</p><p>Since April 2021, HM Passport Office has been advising people to allow up to 10 weeks when applying for their passport from the UK. However, Her Majesty’s Passport Office will always endeavour to process applications as quickly as possible, and in the simplest of cases that require fewer manual interventions these may be processed much more quickly.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/06/2022 07:42:48 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1465852

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
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 are currently being processed by the Passport Office.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>Approximately 250,000 passport applications are being processed each week.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/06/2022 07:44:09 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh