§ Mr. Shersbyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the total number of passport applications received by the passport offices at London and Peterborough for each of the past nine months; and what was the average time between the submission of an application and the issuing of a passport.
§ Mr. RowlandsThe information is contained in the following table:
date of travel rather than date of receipt. Actual issue times varied from one day in cases of extreme urgency up to 42 days in non-priority cases.