Question follow-through · 39186

Passports: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of fast-tracked passport applications taking longer than one week.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 18 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 20 Mar 2025
Answer: 26 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of fast-tracked passport applications taking longer than one week.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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