§ Mr. Proctorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out the cost of re-issuing (a) an individual passport and (b) all passports on expiry in the most recent year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. WaddingtonI understand my hon. Friend's question to relate to issue of new documents to persons who have previously held passports. No records are366W maintained showing the number of these transactions. Various factors will, in any case, affect the time and cost involved in providing individual passport services at home and overseas which would make calculation of their costs extremely difficult and inevitably imprecise.