Passports: Embassies
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Tom Watson (West Bromwich East, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 27 October 2009, Official Report, column 257W, on passports: embassies, how many emergency passports were issued through consular services in each (a) region of the world and (b) country in each of the last five financial years.
Chris Bryant (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Rhondda, Labour)
The number of emergency passports issued in each country over the last five financial years is provided in the following table:
| N umber of EPs i ssued | |||||
| Country | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
| Afghanistan | 11 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 14 |
| Albania | 4 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Algeria | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| Angola | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 13 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 14 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| Argentina | 3 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 6 |
| Armenia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Australia | 189 | 67 | 68 | 46 | 81 |
| Austria | 6 | 4 | 13 | 24 | 23 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Bahrain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Bangladesh | 11 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 6 |
| Barbados | 23 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 3 |
| Belarus | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Belgium | 61 | 52 | 71 | 129 | 150 |
| Belize | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 16 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| Botswana | 5 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
| Brazil | 9 | 21 | 26 | 20 | 23 |
| Brunei | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 93 | 108 | 76 | 87 | 27 |
| Cambodia | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| Canada | 149 | 110 | 114 | 110 | 116 |
| Cayman Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Chile | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 48 |
| China | 44 | 53 | 37 | 42 | 46 |
| Colombia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Congo (Democratic Republic) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| Croatia | 36 | 34 | 31 | 24 | 5 |
| Cuba | 56 | 59 | 74 | 52 | 38 |
| Cyprus | 47 | 65 | 118 | 170 | 19 |
| Czech Republic | 345 | 64 | 102 | 34 | 2 |
| Denmark | 30 | 6 | 21 | 46 | 22 |
| Dominican Republic | 14 | 17 | 16 | 23 | 18 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Egypt | 19 | 29 | 38 | 32 | 14 |
| Eritrea | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Estonia | 16 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Ethiopia | 7 | 6 | 24 | 26 | 4 |
| Fiji | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Finland | 15 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 10 |
| France | 489 | 446 | 685 | 745 | 590 |
| Georgia | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Germany | 304 | 214 | 308 | 257 | 273 |
| Ghana | 23 | 23 | 15 | 16 | 6 |
| Greece | 563 | 388 | 305 | 395 | 309 |
| Grenada | 11 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Guatemala | 26 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| Guyana | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Hungary | 83 | 57 | 50 | 21 | 12 |
| Iceland | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| India | 30 | 47 | 51 | 51 | 37 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 0 |
| Iran | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 0 |
| Iraq | 28 | 17 | 22 | 0 | 23 |
| Ireland | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Israel | 15 | 13 | 20 | 13 | 1 |
| Italy | 380 | 331 | 492 | 449 | 331 |
| Jamaica | 110 | 85 | 37 | 43 | 27 |
| Japan | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Jerusalem | 9 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 9 |
| Jordan | 2 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | 7 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Kenya | 17 | 21 | 13 | 22 | 16 |
| Kuwait | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Laos | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Latvia | 23 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 12 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 1 | 45 | 1 | 3 |
| Libya | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Lithuania | 6 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 4 |
| Luxembourg | 9 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 9 |
| Macedonia | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
| Madagascar | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Malawi | 3 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| Malaysia | 21 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 5 |
| Mali | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Malta | 44 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 41 |
| Mauritius | 8 | 8 | 19 | 11 | 5 |
| Mexico | 31 | 31 | 43 | 22 | 13 |
| Mexico | 23 | 24 | 29 | 37 | 37 |
| Moldova | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Montenegro | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Morocco | 21 | 53 | 29 | 5 | 23 |
| Mozambique | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Namibia | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Nepal | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 11 | 95 | 202 | 206 | 241 |
| Nigeria | 60 | 53 | 54 | 83 | 11 |
| Norway | 10 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 7 |
| Oman | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Pakistan | 153 | 61 | 61 | 83 | 40 |
| Panama | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Papua New Guinea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peru | 8 | 9 | 30 | 3 | 2 |
| Philippines | 11 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 1 |
| Poland | 34 | 6 | 31 | 3 | 13 |
| Portugal | 518 | 372 | 495 | 582 | 643 |
| Romania | 32 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 0 |
| Russia | 32 | 19 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| Rwanda | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Senegal | 2 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| Serbia | 1 | 11 | 23 | 56 | 15 |
| Seychelles | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Sierra Leone | 2 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 5 |
| Singapore | 17 | 17 | 30 | 34 | 24 |
| Slovakia | 21 | 46 | 41 | 19 | 26 |
| Slovenia | 11 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 16 |
| Solomon Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| South Africa | 117 | 102 | 48 | 61 | 109 |
| South Korea | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Spain | 4,596 | 4,468 | 5,423 | 6,188 | 5,700 |
| Sri Lanka | 12 | 8 | 24 | 9 | 22 |
| St. Lucia | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sudan | 3 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| Swaziland | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sweden | 29 | 29 | 24 | 43 | 17 |
| Switzerland | 147 | 209 | 160 | 143 | 100 |
| Syria | 3 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 3 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 10 |
| Thailand | 318 | 260 | 341 | 202 | 105 |
| The Bahamas | 9 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 3 |
| The Gambia | 28 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 5 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 26 | 9 | 22 | 19 | 3 |
| Tunisia | 34 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 4 |
| Turkey | 136 | 186 | 195 | 224 | 276 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Uganda | 0 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 9 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 12 |
| United Arab Emirates | 7 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Uruguay | 4 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 5 |
| USA | 1,430 | 462 | 482 | 586 | 751 |
| Uzbekistan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Venezuela | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 15 |
| Yemen | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| Zambia | 8 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 6 |
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Global Total | 11,485 | 9,212 | 11,138 | 11,956 | 10,806 |