Overview
- The Home Office describes the document as the most secure British passport to date, citing advanced anti-forgery technology.
- About 300 of the redesigned passports are in the first batch now in use.
- Inside pages depict Ben Nevis, the Lake District, Three Cliffs Bay and the Giant’s Causeway to represent the four nations.
- Existing passports bearing Queen Elizabeth II’s coat of arms remain valid until their expiry dates.
- HM Passport Office reports migrating over a billion records to a secure cloud platform that has handled 350 million queries and smoothed production.