People hoping to travel abroad this summer should apply to renew outdated passports "as soon as possible", a minister has warned, as the Passport Office faces huge backlogs.
Home Office minister Kevin Foster also told MPs the Government had no intention of letting the current 10-week processing time slide further. But the Commons heard of one woman who has waited more than five months to receive her daughter's new passport, with services branded "either really very good or an absolute shambles".
SNP home affairs spokesman Stuart C McDonald asked: "All our constituents are having to cancel holidays, miss funerals, rearrange visits, with even a new 10-week target routinely being failed.
