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Identity and Passport Service Website

Catalogue reference: HO 477

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HO 477

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Identity and Passport Service website, including those of its predecessor to 2006. the UK Passport Service (or Agency). [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK...

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HO 477

Title
Identity and Passport Service Website
Date

From 2002

Description

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Identity and Passport Service website, including those of its predecessor to 2006. the UK Passport Service (or Agency).

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

Identity and Passport Service (www.passport.gov.uk) - [from 2000]

Identity and Passport Service (www.ukpa.gov.uk) - [from 2000]

Identity and Passport Service (www.ips.gov.uk) - [from 2007]

IPS Identity and Passport Service - [from 2007]

Arrangement

Please see information at Divisional level.

This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Home Office, 1782-1782
  • Identity and Passport Service, 2006-2006
  • UK Passport Service, 1991-2006
Physical description

archived website(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

Gathered from original website.

Subjects
Topics
Official publications
Accruals

Future website versions may be anticipated.

Administrative / biographical background

The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) is an Executive Agency of the Home Office and was established on 1 April 2006 after the passing of the Identity Cards Act 2006. It was created from a merger of the UK Passport Service and the Identity Cards Programme of the Home Office. The General Register Office (GRO) became part of IPS on 1 April 2008. The IPS is responsible for the issuing of passports to British nationals presently living in the UK, delivering the National Identity Scheme capability, and delivering the functions of the GRO in England and Wales and supporting the Registrar General in discharging his duties.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18212/

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