Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports issued by his Department were reported lost in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
The number of reports of a lost UK passport received by Her Majesty’s Passport Office in 2017 and 2018 are shown in the table below.
2017 365,422
2018 (end of September) 307,345