Written question asked by Nigel Evans (Conservative) on Thursday, 13 November 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 26 November 2008. It was answered by Meg Hillier (Labour) on Wednesday, 26 November 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Passports: Fraud

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been (a) arrested and (b) charged in relation to passport fraud in each of the last five years.

Answer

The figures recorded by the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) for the number of people arrested and the number of people charged in relation to passport fraud in the last five years is shown as follows.

	Arrested	Charged
2004	n/a	n/a
2005	13	0
2006	23	2
2007	48	15
2008	38	7
n/a = Not available.

The aforementioned figures relate to those recorded for people arrested following a passport application, but may not necessarily be specifically for passport fraud.Also, IPS does not routinely receive feedback from the police or prosecution authorities on cases of passport fraud which are referred to them. The figures given above are therefore likely to be a significant under representation of the number of arrests and charges brought. IPS is working with the police and prosecution authorities to develop more effective notification arrangements.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 483 c2282W; 237218
Session: 2007-08
Subjects: Fraud Passports
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Passports: Fraud

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