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 |