Home Office

The complainant requested information from HM Passport Office, which is part of the Home Office, about its policy for issuing additional passports. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office has partly complied with the Act in withholding the guidance policy document “Additional Passports and Frequent Traveller Exemptions”. However she also decided that, in the circumstances of this case, while the public interest favours maintaining the exemption for most of the requested information, it did not outweigh the public interest in disclosing section 1 the Introduction. The Commissioner requires the Home Office to take the following step to ensure compliance with the legislation: disclose section 1 the Introduction of the Home Office internal guidance policy document “Additional Passports and Frequent Traveller Exemptions”.