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Passports: Databases

Question for Home Office

UIN 2603, tabled on 20 November 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to provide access to the passport photo database to police forces.

Answered on

28 November 2023

The sharing of passport data with law enforcement agencies for the purpose of preventing and detecting crime is longstanding, and is provided for within His Majesty’s Passport Office’s Privacy Information Notice:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpo-privacy-information-notice#full-publication-update-history

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