Written Question·Home Office·UIN 101362

HM Passport Office

Tabled: 18 December 2025

Answered: 6 January 2026

Named Day

Question

Catherine McKinnell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review HM Passport Office's policy on considering urgent government business or compassionate reasons to include (a) scattering of ashes and (b) ritual and prayer ceremonies.

Answer

Mike Tapp

HM Passport Office policy already allows applications to be considered under compassionate grounds where there is a time-critical requirement arising from religious observance following a death. This includes the scattering of ashes or ritual and prayer c...

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