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UK Visas and Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the UKVI waiting times for answering enquiries regarding (a) UK passports and (b) British National status.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
15 Sept 2025
Answer
15 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the UKVI waiting times for answering enquiries regarding (a) UK passports and (b) British National status.

  2. 15 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    For customer enquiries made to the Passport Adviceline, in August, the average speed to answer passport related calls was 16 seconds.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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