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Mrs. Gorman
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to privatise the passport-issuing function of his Department.
Mr. Waddington
There are no such plans, but work is well advanced on arrangements for the proposed conversion of the passport department to an executive agency, and for making use of relevant private sector expertise where this would help to improve standards of service.