Passports: Northern Ireland
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Nigel Dodds (Belfast North, DUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for (a) new passports and (b) renewal of passports were submitted to the Passport Office in Belfast in each year since 2005.
Meg Hillier (Hackney South & Shoreditch, Labour)
The following figures are passport application intake for Belfast in each calendar year from 2005 to 2008 for IPS.
| New | Renewal | |
| 2005 | 78,790 | 181,686 |
| 2006 | 79,035 | 204,669 |
| 2007 | 61,512 | 161,236 |
| 2008 | 52,668 | 159,496 |
| Total | 272,005 | 707,087 |