To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British National Overseas passports have been issued in each year since 1997.
Answered on
15 November 2017
The table below shows the number of British National Overseas passports
printed by Her Majesty’s Passport Office between January 1997 and 30 September 2017.
British National Overseas Passports Printed | |
1997 | 12,090 |
1998 | 3,881 |
1999 | 6,250 |
2000 | 5,624 |
2001 | 139,159 |
2002 | 116,345 |
2003 | 81,690 |
2004 | 79,107 |
2005 | 46,801 |
2006 | 37,392 |
2007 | 17,347 |
2008 | 8,905 |
2009 | 8,737 |
2010 | 8,039 |
2011 | 7,654 |
2012 | 10,933 |
2013 | 15,338 |
2014 | 22,022 |
2015 | 26,027 |
2016 | 37,501 |
2017* | 15,458 |
*Data is up to September 2017
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