Gregory Campbell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the change has been in the number of passports which were (a) issued and (b) reported (i) lost and (ii) stolen between 2008 and 2013, by issuing passport office.

James Brokenshire

Passport applications are distributed across Her Majesty’s Passport Office
estate based on capacity and resources in each office. Data for 2008 to 2013
is shown in the following table.

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(a) figures prior to 2013 do not include UK passports issued by FCO. 2013 was the transistion year. Full repatriation of this activity completed in early 2014.

Lost and Stolen data is collated at national level only and not available
separated by issuing office. The following table provides a breakdown of how
many passports have been reported (i) lost, and (ii) stolen between 2008 and
2013.

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The category "other" is used by Her Majesty’s Passport Office predominantly
when a passport is declared damaged or destroyed.