division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [1st Allotted Day] &#8212; Passport Applications
motion: <p class="" pid="b.1121.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.1121.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House expresses concern at the experience of constituents applying for passports at HM Passport Office, including lengthy delays and consequential cancellations of holidays and business visits; notes the Government&#8217;s response to the Urgent Question from the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford of <phrase class="date" code="2014-06-12">12 June 2014</phrase>, setting out emergency measures to deal with the passport backlog after an increase in demand; further notes that HM Passport Office is taking over responsibility for issuing an estimated 350,000 passports to citizens overseas from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office this year; believes that the Government failed to properly plan to meet the level of demand this year; calls on the Government to expand its emergency measures by compensating passport applicants who had to pay for urgent upgrades in recent weeks because of internal delays with HM Passport Office; and further calls for the Secretary of State for the Home Department to publish monthly figures for passport applications from within the UK and abroad compared to previous years to monitor performance at HM Passport Office.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.1178.8/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Question put,</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.1178.8/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1178.8/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 235, Noes 282.</p>