§ 54. Mr. Sorensenasked the Minister of Labour to what extent local employment exchanges have increased their service in the issuing or replacement of passports during the past five years.
§ Mr. Godber441,543 applications for ordinary passports—including renewals were dealt with by employment exchanges in 1959 and in 1963 the number was 428,656. In addition, the exchanges have since March, 1961, been issuing a simplified British Visitors Passport. Of these 290,864 were issued in 1961 and 445,339 in 1963.