To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how long it took on average for each of the passport issuing offices in the United Kingdom to process a passport to applicants in 2006. (183930)

[holding answer 1 February 2008]: Average processing time for straightforward properly completed postal passport applications by issuing office in 2006 is as follows:

The London regional office were processing small volumes of postal work during January and February in 2006. However, London deal primarily with applications made in person.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passports were processed in regional passport offices per week (a) in the latest year for which figures are available and (b) in each of the previous five years. (187571)

The table placed in the House Library shows the weekly output of each regional passport office for each week from 2002 until 2007.