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26th April 2022
10:41am BST
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"All our constituents are having to cancel holidays, miss funerals, rearrange visits, with even a new ten-week target routinely being failed," said SNP's home affairs spokesman Stuart McDonald. "What will be done to avoid this predictable mess getting worse? And can we be assured that the ten-week target will not be lengthened further as we approach the summer?"
Foster detailed how usually the government see seven million applications in a year - while last month alone, they saw 10 million.
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In response, an HM Passport Office spokesman said: "We urge people who need a new passport to apply for one as soon as possible and we do offer urgent services for applicants who need a passport more quickly."
According to The Independent, Labour MP Ben Bradshaw said: “Yet again, the Home Office and Priti Patel have been asleep on the job.
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“Anyone could have predicted that after two years of travel restrictions there would be big surge in passport renewals and applications.
“Yet there seems to have been no planning for this, meaning thousands of families who have been looking forward to seeing loved ones again or having a holiday are having those hopes dashed.”
