United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 40927
Passports: Applications
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20 July 2022
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5 September 2022 · Answer
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5 September 2022
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to clear the backlog of passport applications; and whether her Department is taking steps to install new infrastructure to speed up new applications.
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20 July 2022
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to clear the backlog of passport applications; and whether her Department is taking steps to install new infrastructure to speed up new applications.
Source: Commons
5 September 2022
Answer
HM Passport Office staffing numbers have been increased over 1200 since April 2021. This has delivered the operational capacity needed to process applications in record numbers, at approximately one million each month.Across the first 6 months of 2022, HM...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-07-20/40927
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1491069
- uk · wq-1491069 · source updated 5 September 2022