Passports: Contracts
(asked on 23rd March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that the new British blue passports are produced in the UK.
This question was answered on 28th March 2018
There is no reason to require UK passports to be manufactured in the United Kingdom. Up to 20 per cent of blank passport books are currently produced in Europe with no security or operational concerns.
All passports are personalised with the holder’s details in the United Kingdom, meaning that no personal data leaves the UK. This will continue under the next passport contract.