The Passport Service receives applications through a range of channels, including the online passport application service. The following figures reflect the numbers received through all channels in the years requested.
Year
|
Applications from Great Britain
|
Applications from Northern Ireland
|
|
|
|
2012
|
45,646
|
41,124
|
2013
|
42,441
|
44,122
|
2014
|
43,449
|
48,475
|
2015
|
47,603
|
54,026
|
2016
|
67,376
|
68,270
|
2017
|
83,115
|
83,363
|
2018
|
98,544
|
84,855
|
2019*
|
28,958
|
34,669
|
Figures include applications for both passport books and passport cards.
Please note that any application that requires further documents or clarification may be assigned a later date of registration when the new documents are received. Registration figures are therefore adjusted accordingly and, if such an adjustment takes place at the end of a calendar year, can result in an application being re-assigned to the subsequent year. This explanation will account for variations between the figures provided here and elsewhere, for example, in the response given to PQ 48253/18 which gave the figure of 85,180 applications received from Northern Ireland, as of 31 October 2018.
*Figures are from 1 January to 28 February 2019.