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Written question asked by Damian Green (Conservative) on Monday, 27 October 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 29 October 2008. It was answered by Meg Hillier (Labour) on Wednesday, 26 November 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Passports: Interviews

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were interviewed in each of the operational passport interview centres between the establishment of each centre and 1 October 2008.
Answer

We completed 264,046 interviews which have been broken down by office in the following table:

Number
Aberdeen 1,896
Aberystwyth 530
Andover 1,118
Armagh 692
South Molton (Barnstable) 646
Belfast 3578
Berwick on Tweed 300
Birmingham 17,296
Blackburn 4,678
Sleaford (Boston) 677
Bournemouth 2,163
Bristol 4,220
Bury St Edmunds 1,241
Redruth (Cambourne) 995
Carlisle 1,325
Chelmsford 4,756
Cheltenham 2,479
Coleraine 1,212
Crawley 3,095
Derby 6,284
Dover 1,375
Dumfries 587
Dundee 2,099
Edinburgh 4,242
Exeter 2,147
Selkirk (Galashiels) 468
Glasgow 8,853
Brighton (Hastings) 910
Inverness 935
Ipswich 2,178
Kendal 1,255
Kings Lynn 831
Kingston upon Hull 3,151
Leeds 9,872
Leicester 4,217
Lincoln 2,609
Liverpool 9,479
London 52,803
Luton 5,125
Maidstone 3,809
Manchester 13,857
Middlesbrough 4,345
Newcastle 8,034
Newport 7,040
Newport IOW 556
Ripon (Northallerton) 504
Northampton 3,120
Norwich 2,579
Oban 13
Omagh 621
Oxford 2,023
Peterborough 3793
Plymouth 2,121
Portsmouth 4,322
Reading 4,982
Scarborough 721
Sheffield 8,163
Shrewsbury 2,030
St. Austell 756
Stirling 1,579
Stoke on Trent 3,932
Swansea 3,311
Swindon 1,568
Warwick 2,588
Wick 212
Wrexham 2,170
Yeovil 1,762
York 1,218

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
483 c2282-3W; 231585
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Interviews Passports
Link
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