Question follow-through · 66008

Passports: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports have been cancelled due to UK citizens travelling abroad to join Islamist terrorist groups in the last five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 8 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 10 Jul 2025
Answer: 16 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports have been cancelled due to UK citizens travelling abroad to join Islamist terrorist groups in the last five years.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
It is the longstanding policy of successive UK governments that we do not comment on operational intelligence or security matters , including the specific details of individuals who have and their passports revoked.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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