Petition · past parliament

Abort plans to change UK passports to Blue Passports

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

We find it ludicrous that the Government would consider wasting £500 Million on changing our passports to a different colour when that money could be put to better use towards alleviating poverty and homelessness in the UK as a whole.
Over the last 10 years the Government has continually capped and sliced funding to the areas of Welfare and Social Care. We call on the Government to scrap the plans for changing the colour of the UK passport to Blue and to use the reported £500 Million allocated to that budget to be used where it can serve a better purpose: Use the money to alleviate poverty and homelessness to some degree in the UK as a whole.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

22 Dec 2017 Petition opened for signatures
2 Jan 2018 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 2 Jan 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.