HM Passport
Office

Part of Home Office

What we do

HM Passport Office is the sole issuer of UK passports and responsible for civil registration services through the General Register Office.

HM Passport Office is part of the Home Office.

Read more about what we do

Documents

Our announcements

1. New interim Director General appointed to HMPO

   • 10 November 2014
   • News story

2. HM Passport Office

   • 13 October 2014
   • Written statement to Parliament

See all our announcements

Our publications

1. Guidance for the clergy

   • 2 March 2015
   • Guidance

2. You said, we did 2015

   • 12 February 2015
   • Guidance

See all our publications

Our statistics

1. HMPO performance data 2012 to 2013

   • 19 May 2014
   • Statistics

2. IPS performance data 2011 to 2012

   • 25 March 2013
   • Statistics

See all our statistics

Our management

• 

  Tyson Hepple

  Director General (acting)

• Paul Pugh

  Registrar General for England and Wales

Contact HM Passport Office

General enquiries

2nd Floor Peel Building
NE Mailpoint A2
Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Telephone: 0300 222 0000

Contact form https://eforms.homeoff...

Press enquiries

For journalists only 020 7035 3535

This service is for members of the media only. The Home Office press office handles all media enquiries for HM Passport Office.

Passports

Contact form https://eforms.homeoff...

Passport advice 0300 222 0000

The line is open from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday, and from 9am to 5.30pm weekends and public holidays. Calls to 0300 numbers are charged at your network provider's standard national rate.

Birth, marriage and death certificates

General Register Office 0300 123 1837

The line is open 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday, and 9am to 4pm on Saturday.

Make an FOI request

1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request
2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question
3. Make a new request by contacting us at:

Freedom of information requests

Parliamentary and diplomatic enquiries team
Home Office, 2nd Floor
Peel NE Mailpoint A2
Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Email FOI@hmpo.gsi.gov.uk

Please only use for Freedom of information requests

Corporate information

Jobs and contracts

Read about the types of information we routinely publish in our Publication scheme.