HC Deb 22 April 1988 vol 131 c592W
Mr. Evennett

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans for the new EEC British passport to be issued from the Petty France office.

Mr. Renton

Our present plans are for the London passport office to be computerised, and to begin issuing the new version of the British passport, machine-readable, and in the EC common format, from December 1989.