Home Department written question – answered at on 3 February 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the introduction of gender non-specific passports; and what discussions she has had with international counterparts on this matter.
Her Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO) undertook an internal review into the use of gender markers in the British passport. I am today placing a copy of that review in the Library of both Houses.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) governs standards regarding passports and currently prescribes a gender marking in passports.
The United Kingdom has no plans to depart from that standard. The ICAO Technical Advisory Group has agreed to keep gender markings in passports under review by obtaining regular updates from member states.
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