Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of times the HM Passport Office database has been accessed to identify suspects as part of a criminal investigation in each of the last five years.

His Majesty’s Passport Office receives requests for various information from the police. The volumes of requests for any range of data that is specifically due to an active criminal investigation is not held in a reportable format.