HC Deb 13 March 1995 vol 256 c368W
Mr. Rooker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many cases of false(a) full passports and (b) British visitor's passports in the past five years it has been discovered that a living person's identity has been duplicated

Mr. Nicholas Baker

The total number of fraudulent passport applications in each of the last five years was:

Full passports British visitor's passports
1990 854 210
1991 1,037 151
1992 984 126
1993 1,162 159
1994 1,031 116

Separate figures are not available for the number of those applicants who used false identifies posing as a living person.