Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people reported (a) lost and (b) stolen passports to the Passport Office in 2014; and how many of those people were issued with a replacement.

In 2014 Her Majesty’s Passport Office was notified of 299,531 lost, stolen or “other” passports. The category "other" is used by Her Majesty’s Passport Office predominantly when a passport is declared damaged or destroyed. In 241,389 instances, the lost, stolen or other report was accompanied by an application for a replacement passport. A total of 58,142 applicants did not apply for passports immediately at the time of the reported loss. It is not possible to provide a figure for the number of people that applied for a replacement passport after notifying Her Majesty’s Passport Office about the loss of or damage to their passport.