PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Passports (4 June 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Immigration and Passport Service on (a) the service's ability to meet the three-week timescale for processing an application for a child passport and (b) possible extension of that timescale.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

Expected service standards for processing passports are given at: www.gov.uk.


My Rt. Hon. Friend the Home Secretary explained in the House on 12 June 2014
a set of measures to deal with the high level of passport demand has been put
in place. I refer the Hon. Member to the statement of 12 June 2014, Official
Report, columns 693 and 694.

Answered by:
James Brokenshire (Conservative)
3 July 2014