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Written question asked by Lord Roberts of Llandudno (Liberal Democrat), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord West of Spithead (Labour) on Monday, 17 December 2007.


Passports: Interviews

Question
How many personal passport interviews have taken place at each of the personal passport interview offices; and how many applications have been successful.
Answer

As at 10 December 2007, 41 interview offices dealing with first-time passport customers are in live operations—the table below lists all 41 offices. We anticipate that 62 offices will be fully operational by end December 2007, with a further six opening by end February 2008. As at 10 December 2007, IPS has conducted 15,800 completed interviews and 94.1 per cent of these interviews have resulted in a passport being issued within three days of completion of appointment; 2.8per cent have not been completed and 3.1 per cent have required further examination.

Newport Peterborough Newcastle Glasgow Belfast
Manchester Birmingham London Dover Leeds
Plymouth Portsmouth Liverpool Middlesbrough Stoke-on- Trent
Lincoln Swansea Cheltenham Sheffield Yeovil
Newport IOW Northampton Carlisle Coleraine Crawley
Armagh Bournemouth Ipswich Shrewsbury Wrexham
Scarborough Stirling York Aberystwyth Derby
Edinburgh Aberdeen Chelmsford Luton Maidstone
Omagh

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
823; 697 c104-5WA
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Applications Interviews Passports Offices Identity and Passport Service
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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