Question

To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many passes to the parliamentary estate were active at the end of each calendar year between 2015 and 2025, broken down by (a) Members of the House of Commons, (b) Members' staff and interns, (c) political parties, (d) former Members of the House of Commons, (e) Members of the House of Lords, (f) Peers' staff and interns, (g) retired Peers, (h) Hereditary Peers, (i) direct employees of the House of Commons, (j) Member's spouses and partners, (k) direct employees of the House (Bicameral), (l) direct Employees of the House of Lords, (m) Peer's Spouses and partners, (n) specialist advisers employed by the House of Commons (o) specialist advisers employed by the House of Lords, (p) Civil Servants and Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), (q) partners and contracting companies that do not require a Health & Safety Induction (r) partners and contracting companies that require a Health & Safety Induction, (s) media, (t) gymnasium members only and (u) R&R Management.

The parliamentary pass system is a live database providing a current snapshot of data. It does not store historical information. Therefore, we are unable to extract the information as requested.

From 2020, the pass office kept some manual records of active pass numbers in groups. These are not grouped exactly as per the question, and the raw data was not retained to be able to retrospectively regroup this information. These numbers do not include day passes for MPs’ staff whose security clearance application indicated a requirement to attend Parliament on an occasional basis.