Passports
(asked on 23rd November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of UK (a) residents and (b) citizens holds a UK passport.
This question was answered on 5th December 2016
There are 49 million valid passports in circulation. Her Majesty’s Passport Office neither monitors the residential status of UK passport holders nor records population statistics.
This data has been obtained from a live operational database. The numbers may change depending on when the data is downloaded as information on that system is updated.