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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were rejected by HM Passport Office because of the quality of the identification photo supplied in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were rejected by HM Passport Office because of the quality of the identification photo supplied in the last 12 months.
HM Passport Office records indicate that during the period 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016: 219,508 passport applications had a query raised for the photograph not being acceptable and with a further photograph requested.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports were reported as containing fake identification photos in the (a) last and (b) previous 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports were reported as containing fake identification photos in the (a) last and (b) previous 12 months.
Data on false documents identified by the Home Office within the border and immigration system shows that from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 555 travel documents were identified that involved some form of photo substitution, including hard photo substitution, digital image substitution or substituted biographical data page. 25 of these cases involved UK passports.
In the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016, 643 travel documents were identified that involved some form of photo substitution, including hard photo substitution, digital image substitution or substituted biographical data page. 18 of these cases involved UK passports.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to seek professional photographic trade association (a) accreditation, (b) sanction and (c) support for proposals to encourage digital identification photographs to be used in passport applications.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to seek professional photographic trade association (a) accreditation, (b) sanction and (c) support for proposals to encourage digital identification photographs to be used in passport applications.
Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HM Passport Office) digital passport service has been de-signed with both security and customer choice in mind and the department continues to put public protection at the heart of all new services offered. HM Passport Office is contin-uously evaluating new technologies and measures that will improve both security and customer service. We are fully committed to our public protection agenda and this extends to all aspects of the application process, across all channels.
Digital photographs, submitted as part of the new digital passport service, are required to meet the exacting standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Photos are checked for compliance both through the system when uploaded and subsequently through the manual examination process. Customers have the choice of taking and up-loading their own photographs, or going to a professional digital photo service provider to supply them with a digital photograph for their application.
HM Passport Office officials have, through the Open Information Exchange group, met members of the professional photographic trade, including the Photo Marketing Associa-tion (PMA). HM Passport Office have arranged for the PMA to demonstrate their Photo Sending Service to the HM Passport Office project team later this month. HM Passport Office will continue to engage with the photographic industry to share information about current plans for digital services.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether HM Passport Office has trialled and tested the professional photo trade association ICAO compliant Digital ID Photo Sending Service proposal to mitigate identification fraud, photo rejections, poor image quality and cyber security threats.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether HM Passport Office has trialled and tested the professional photo trade association ICAO compliant Digital ID Photo Sending Service proposal to mitigate identification fraud, photo rejections, poor image quality and cyber security threats.
Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HM Passport Office) digital passport service has been designed with both security and customer choice in mind and the department continues to put public protection at the heart of all new services offered. HM Passport Office is continuously evaluating new technologies and measures that will improve both security and customer service. We are fully committed to our public protection agenda and this extends to all aspects of the application process, across all channels.
Digital photographs, submitted as part of the new digital passport service, are required to meet the exacting standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Photos are checked for compliance both through the system when uploaded and subsequently through the manual examination process. Customers have the choice of taking and uploading their own photographs, or going to a professional digital photo service provider to supply them with a digital photograph for their application.
HM Passport Office officials have, through the Open Information Exchange group, met members of the professional photographic trade, including the Photo Marketing Association (PMA). HM Passport Office have arranged for the PMA to demonstrate their Photo Sending Service to the HM Passport Office project team later this month. HM Passport Office will continue to engage with the photographic industry to share information about current plans for digital services.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken (a) to improve cyber security and (b) prevent hacking as part of proposals for members of the public to submit identification photographs for official documents to HM Passport Office using their own digital services.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken (a) to improve cyber security and (b) prevent hacking as part of proposals for members of the public to submit identification photographs for official documents to HM Passport Office using their own digital services.
Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HM Passport Office) digital passport service has been designed with both security and customer choice in mind and the department continues to put public protection at the heart of all new services offered. HM Passport Office is continuously evaluating new technologies and measures that will improve both security and customer service.
Digital photographs, submitted as part of the new digital passport service, are required to meet the exacting standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.
Photos are checked for compliance both through the system when uploaded and subsequently through the manual examination process.