Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of disabled people hold a valid passport.

His Majesty’s Passport Office can apply exemptions to its policies where a disability would create undue difficulties in applying for a passport and will hold data on an individual record where such an exemption has been applied. However, a person being disabled otherwise has no bearing upon applying for a passport, and therefore data relating to a disability is not routinely captured or held in a reportable format.