HC Deb 04 July 1988 vol 136 cc406-9W
Mr. Madden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the reply of 27 June, if he will list the names of the agencies accredited by the London Passport Office for the lodging of bulk applications.

Mr. Renton

The agencies are as listed:

  • Advisory and Travel Service
  • Afro Asian Advisory Service
  • Amathus (UK) Ltd.
  • Amazon Travel Ltd.
  • American Express IBC
  • Apollo Travel Service
  • Aquarius Travel
  • Automobile Association
  • Ayscough Travel Ltd.
  • Aero-Speedway Travel Centre
  • Albany Foremost Travel Ltd.
  • Alecos Tours Ltd.
  • American Express International Banking Corp.
  • American Express Travel Division
  • APV Hall International Ltd.
  • A T Mays
  • Avisa Passport and Travel Service
  • Baldwins Travel Agency Ltd.
  • Balfour Beatty Construction Ltd.
  • Barclays Bank International Ltd.
  • Beck and Pollitzer Construction Ltd.
  • Blair Consular Services Ltd.
  • Borax Holdings Ltd.
  • BP Minerals International Ltd.
  • British Airways Travel Centre
  • British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd.
  • Babcock and Wilcox Ltd.
  • Bales Tours Ltd.
  • Bank Line Travel Ltd.
  • Baxter Hoare Travel Ltd.
  • Benmar Passport Services
  • Blue Star Travel
  • Born Free
  • Britannic Travel
  • 407
  • British Airways London Gatwick
  • British Broadcasting Corp.
  • British Oxygen Co. Ltd.
  • Camberley Travel Centre
  • Central Electricity Generating Board Travel Section
  • Commonwealth Development Corp.
  • Convoy Travel Service
  • Cunard Shipping Services Ltd.
  • Cyprus Travel (London) Ltd.
  • Cable and Wireless Ltd.
  • Capital
  • Cleopatra Travel
  • Compass Travel Ltd.
  • Cox and Kings Ltd.
  • Cyplon Travel Ltd.
  • Davies Turner Travel
  • Depike Engineers Ltd.
  • Davids Travels Ltd.
  • Dalgety World Travel
  • Diplomat Travel
  • Embassy Travel Ltd.
  • Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd.
  • Euro-Cyp Travel Ltd.
  • Excor Travel Division
  • Expotel Executive Travel
  • Equatoria Associates Ltd.
  • Eupo-Air Travel Service Ltd.
  • Ever Travel
  • Executive Travelcair Ltd.
  • Express Boyd Ltd.
  • Fairways and Swinford (Travel) Ltd.
  • Fitstravel Ltd.
  • Foster Wheeler Ltd.
  • Fregata Travel Ltd.
  • Furness Travel Ltd.
  • Fishley Schley Associates (Travel) Ltd.
  • Forbes Campbell (Travel) Ltd.
  • Frames Tours Ltd. Fryer Travel Ltd.
  • Gemini Travel
  • Grayson Travel Ltd.
  • Gellatly Travel
  • Gray Dawes Travel Ltd.
  • Groutas Tourist Agencies Ltd.
  • Haden International Ltd.
  • Hanson Travel Service Ltd.
  • Hep Travel Ltd.
  • Hillgate Travel (London) Ltd.
  • Hogg Robinson Travel Ltd.
  • Hampden Travel
  • Happy Days Travel
  • Hercules Travel Ltd.
  • Messrs C. Hoare and Co.
  • The Hong Kong Bank Group
  • I. E. L. Travel Ltd.
  • Instone Travel Services Ltd.
  • International Aeradio Ltd.
  • Jebsens Travel Ltd.
  • Johnson's Travel Agency Ltd.
  • Kendall Globe Ltd.
  • Kodak Ltd.
  • Kuoni Travel Ltd.
  • Keith Prowse Travel
  • K and M Services Ltd.
  • Kowloon Travel Service
  • Kypros Travel and Tours Ltd.
  • Larnax Travel Agency
  • LD Travel Services Ltd.
  • Livingstone Williams and Grant
  • The Lummus Co. Ltd.
  • Lazard Brothers and Co. Ltd.
  • LEP Travel Ltd.
  • Louis Tourist Agency Ltd.
  • Lysander Travel Service Ltd.
  • Magnet World Travel Ltd.
  • 408
  • Malibu Travel
  • Mark Allen Travel Ltd.
  • G Maunsell and Partners
  • Melosun Travel
  • Modernline Travel Ltd.
  • Monteith Travel Services Ltd.
  • Magnum Travel Co.Ltd.
  • Marathon Tours
  • Matthew Hall Engineering Co.
  • Meadows Travel Service Ltd.
  • Metropolitan Travel
  • Molins Ltd.
  • Musgrove and Watson (Overseas) Ltd.
  • National Westminster Bank Ltd.
  • Nicholas Brothers (Travel) Ltd.
  • The New Bengal Travel Services Ltd.
  • Overseas Chinese Service
  • Orient Travel Services
  • Oceanair Aldgate
  • Overseas Containers Ltd. (P and O)
  • Othello Travel
  • J F Padwick Ltd
  • Paris Travel Service
  • Patrick Business Travel Ltd.
  • Peltours Ltd.
  • Pickfords Business Travel
  • Powell Duffryn Travel
  • Pullman Kellog Ltd.
  • Padwick's Travel (Wembley) Ltd.
  • Passport and Visa Services
  • Patsalides Travel (London) Ltd.
  • Philips Travel
  • P and O Travel
  • Professional World Travel
  • PVS (UK) Ltd
  • RAC
  • M A Rahman
  • Rea Brothers (Travel) Ltd.
  • Reigate Travel Ltd.
  • Rolls Royce Ltd.
  • Royal Bank of Scotland Ltd.
  • Reed and Mackay Travel Ltd.
  • Renown Travel Service Ltd.
  • Ross Consular Services Ltd.
  • R T Z Services Ltd.
  • Sadi Travel
  • The Services Sound and Vision Corp.
  • S and H Travel
  • Shears Travel Bureau Ltd.
  • Shell UK Administrative Services
  • Spurs Travel
  • Statesman Travel Ltd.
  • Salvation Army Travel Service
  • Sevenoaks Travel Ltd.
  • Sheba World Travel Services Ltd.
  • Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd.
  • S P Travel
  • Standard Chartered Bank Ltd.
  • Stephenson and Ephgrave (Travel) Ltd.
  • Tarmac International Ltd.
  • Thomas Cook Ltd.
  • Thomson Travel Ltd.
  • Townsend Travel
  • Travcour (UK)
  • Travel Elite
  • Travel Trade Services
  • Truva Travel and Tourism Ltd.
  • T and D World Travel Ltd.
  • Thames Thornton Ltd.
  • Tiltons and Son Ltd.
  • R H Thornton
  • Transworld Technical Services
  • The Travel Company
  • Travel Places
  • Triaena Travel
  • Turner Executive Travel
  • UAC Ltd.
  • 409
  • Uniroyal Ltd.
  • Unilever Ltd.
  • Unitage World Travel
  • Vardon Travel
  • Visa Shop Ltd.
  • VIP Travel Ltd.
  • Vistra Services
  • W F and R K Swan Ltd.
  • West End Travel Ltd.
  • Westminster Dredging Co. Ltd.
  • George Wimpey and Co. Ltd.
  • World Travel
  • Wellings and McMillan Ltd.
  • Western Geophysical
  • Williams and Glyn's Bank Ltd.
  • W B Woolley (1978) Ltd.
  • Zenon Travel and Tours Ltd.
  • Zodiac Travel Service

A number of the companies listed have several branches accredited separately as agents. The list does not include Government Departments, which also have agency status at the Passport Office.

Mr. Madden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the reply of 27 June, if he will list the direct telephone numbers of his Department's caseworker staff with whom applicants and their representatives may check the progress of applications; and if he will also specify the times when such calls may be made.

Mr. Renton

No. If applicants or their representatives already have correspondence from case-working staff on which, as should generally be the case, a telephone number has been included, they may call that number to check on progress. Otherwise, telephone inquiries about immigration, nationality and passport matters should be made to the telephone inquiry bureaux for those departments. Telephone inquiries about other matters for which the Home Office is responsible should be made either to the number listed in the telephone directory for the office concerned, or to the general number for the Department's headquarters' offices.

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