Passports: Lost Property
(asked on 27th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports sent out by his Department were reported as lost in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018 to date.
This question was answered on 5th December 2018
The table below shows the number of newly issued UK passports lost during delivery for 2017 and up to and including July 2018.
There is a three month process in place to allow for investigation and possible recovery. Data of reported delivery losses from August 2018 onwards is therefore not confirmed.
Year | Losses | Total Volume Delivered | % Losses against Deliveries |
2017 | 300 | 6,749,769 | 0.0044 |
2018 (January to July) | 242 | 4,856,755 | 0.005 |