§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passports have been issued by the Belfast passport office to people who lodged their applications at the Glasgow passport office in the past year; and if he will make it his policy that passports should be marked as having been issued at the office to which the application was sent, regardless of any other administrative arrangements which may be made by his Department.
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§ Mr. Peter LloydSince September 1989, about 50,000 passport applications sent to the Glasgow passport office have been transferred to the Belfast office for processing under the passport department's arrangements for balancing workloads between offices to reduce delays. To show on a passport an issuing office other than that which issued the passport would be administratively difficult, confusing, and contrary to international passport practice.