Passports: Lost Property
(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports sent out by the Home Office have been lost in the post in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 14th November 2017
The table below shows the number of UK passports lost during delivery for both the UK and overseas for the last five years.
Her Majesty’s Passport Office records and cancels any passport lost through delivery, and the customer is issued with a new passport at no extra cost.
Year | Losses | Total Volume Printed | % Losses against Printed |
2012 | 312 | 5,315,465 | 0.006 |
2013 | 265 | 5,609,530 | 0.005 |
2014 | 278 | 6,228,867 | 0.004 |
2015 | 375 | 6,762,898 | 0.006 |
2016 | 472 | 6,880,927 | 0.007 |