Home Department written question – answered at on 11 June 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average processing time was from time of receipt to time of dispatch to applicant for passport postal applications received by the Identity and Passport Service (a) in each month of the year of receipt and (b) at each passport application processing facility in each of the last three years.
The information in the table, provided by the Identity and Passport Service shows the monthly average turnaround times for applications in days for each location processing postal passport applications for 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Average passport turnaround | ||||||||
days | ||||||||
London | North West and Central | East and Midlands | Wales and South West | Scotland | Northern Ireland | North East | National Average | |
2011 | ||||||||
December | 0 | 6.7 | 6.2 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
November | 0 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 8.3 | 7.3 | 7.6 |
October | 0 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 5.4 | 6.2 | 5.2 |
September | 0 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 2.9 |
August | 0 | 6.9 | 7 | 2 | 3.5 | 5.3 | 6 | 5.8 |
July | 0 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 5.4 | 6.8 | 6.3 |
June | 0 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 3 | 3 | 2.9 |
May | 0 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.1 |
April | 2 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 2 |
March | 0.5 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 |
February | 1.3 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
January | 0 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.4 |
2010 | ||||||||
December | 0.3 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
November | 2.5 | 2 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 2 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 2.2 |
October | 2.9 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 2 | 2.4 | 2 | 2 |
September | 0 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
August | 0 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 2.1 |
July | 0 | 2.4 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
June | 0.3 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 5.6 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
May | 2.9 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 5.9 | 2.6 | 5.6 | 5.4 | 5.2 |
April | 2 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 1.9 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 5.4 |
March | 2.4 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.4 |
February | 3.6 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
January | 6.4 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
2009 | ||||||||
December | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 1,8 |
November | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 2 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
October | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2 |
September | 1.2 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
August | 0 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 2.3 | 5.4 | 6.2 | 6 |
July | 1.5 | 4.9 | 7.1 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 7.5 | 6.1 | 6 |
June | 1.9 | 6.2 | 7.2 | 6.4 | 3 | 8.1 | 6.7 | 6.7 |
May | 3 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 2 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
April | 1.1 | 3 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.4 |
March | 1.4 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
February | 0 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.6 |
January | 0 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
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