Passports: Lost Property
(asked on 13th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the number of passports handled by the Passport Office lost in the post each year since 2019.
The data held for documents lost in the possession of our providers of secure delivery services does not distinguish between newly issued passports and documents whcih were sent in support of an application.
The table below shows the number of passports and supporting documents that have been confirmed as lost in the possession of a provider of secure delivery services in the UK for each year from 2019:
Year | Confirmed Losses | Volume of consignments | Percentage of confirmed losses |
2019 | 168 | 7,548,768 | 0.002% |
2020 | 111 | 3,634,320 | 0.003% |
2021 (01/01/2021 – 31/10/2021) * | 312 | 5,260,013 | 0.006% |
*Confirmed losses for the whole of 2021 will be available from September 2022.
The data held for deliveries overseas are not broken down between those items reported as ‘lost’, and those that declared as ‘stolen’.
The table below shows the number of passports and supporting documents that have been confirmed as lost in the possession of a provider of secure delivery services overseas for each year from 2019:
Year | Loss and Theft | Volume of consignments | Percentage of loss and theft |
2019 | 103 | 1,007,981 | 0.01% |
2020 | 85 | 1,198,954 | 0.007% |
2021 | 157 | 856,742 | 0.019% |