Speeches

Lord Laird – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Laird on 2015-10-19.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in each year since 1995, how many passports have been issued by the appropriate office in Belfast.

Lord Bates

I refer to the attached table which provides by calendar year the volume of passport applications issued by the Belfast office from 2005 to 2014. Her Majesty’s Passport Office does not hold readily available data prior to 2005 and the cost of extracting this data would be disproportionate.

Year

Number of passports processed by Belfast Office

2005

359,224

2006

336,306

2007

364,821

2008

341,898

2009

370,622

2010

364,688

2011

408,628

2012

427,422

2013

433,530

2014

628,528