§ Mr. Hal Millerasked the Lord Privy Seal what advice the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is giving to passport applicants following the selective industrial action at the passport offices.
§ Mr. LucePassport applicants in Great Britain wishing to make short visits to Western Europe and Canada are being encouraged to obtain British visitor's passports from main Post Offices. In Northern Ireland British visitor's passports are obtainable from the Belfast Passport Agency. The public are also being advised to check in advance either by telephone or at a passport office before making applications for standard passports, particularly by post. Recently some passport offices have not been able to deal with postal applications and applicants wishing to travel abroad urgently are being advised to submit their applications by hand at a passport office. In certain cases, even this counter service is on a very limited scale.