§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each passport issuing office the current waiting times for processing applications for passports.
§ Mr. Charles WardleI have asked the chief executive of the Passport Agency to reply and he will do so shortly. A copy of his reply will be placed in the Library.
Letter from J. E. Hayzelden to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 5 May 1993:
268WThe Home Secretary has asked me, as chief executive of the Passport Agency, to write to you in response to your Parliamentary Question about processing times for passport applications. I have set out below the current processing times for straightforward, properly completed passport applications at each of our six offices. They are:
Passport Office Working days Belfast 6 Glasgow 8 Liverpool 13 London 8 Newport 10 Peterborough 7 Our current target is to process these applications within a maximum of 20 working days, while processing urgent applications in accordance with customers' travel needs.