Passports
(asked on 2nd July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are now issuing British passports without the words "European Union" on the front cover; and if so, why.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Passport design changes are determined months in advance to ensure that there are sufficient stocks to deliver passport services to nearly seven million British travellers each year.
The issuing of passports to British citizens that no longer include the words European Union was therefore long planned to coincide with the earliest possible date that the UK would leave the EU, and introduced on 30 March 2019.
There is no difference for British citizens whether their passport does or does not reference the EU. Both are equally valid for travel.