Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the merits of changing the eligibility criteria so that people aged over 80 years are entitled to apply for a free passport.

The current concessionary passports were introduced in October 2004 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War the following year; and recognise the contribution made to the war effort by people aged 16 or over at its conclusion. There are no plans to extend the criteria upon which free passports are issued.