Written question asked by David Davis (Conservative) on Wednesday, 16 March 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 7 April 2005. It was answered by Charles Clarke (Labour) on Thursday, 7 April 2005 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fraudulent applications there have been for passports in each year since 1997.

Answer: David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fraudulent applications there have been for passports in each year since 1997. [223193] Mr. Charles Clarke: Figures for the number of fraudulent passport applications detected by the UK Passport Service in each year since 1997 are shown in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number 1997 1,880 1998 1,368 1999 1,596 2000 1,484 2001 2,419 2002 1,973 2003 1,571 2004 1,880 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

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