Home Department written question – answered at on 6 September 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she plans to take to maintain passport security.
Passport security is extremely important. In operating the passport business, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) will continue to work to UK Government security standards and international standards on document security. To ensure greater efficiency and an improvement in the detection of fraud, IPS plans to develop a risk based approach to processing passport applications. In relation to document security, a new design of the UK passport will be introduced from
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No5 people think not
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