Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK passports have been lost abroad in each of the last five years.

When a customer loses or has a passport stolen while abroad the guidance is that they should report this to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) where it has been lost. These losses and thefts are recorded by the FCO and the information is passed to Her Majesty’s Passport Office who will take necessary action to cancel the passport as appropriate.

Previous figures for UK passports lost & stolen outside the UK between 2008-2013 have been published by the FCO:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foi-release-uk-passports-lost-or-stolen-abroad

Other figures published by the FCO relating to lost and stolen passports abroad by British citizens can be found in the attached links:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/passport-statistics

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/helping-british-nationals-abroad-2016