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Dear HM Passport Office,
I am informed by the Post Office that your department prevents the Post Office from providing Passport Application forms in any other Post Office Branch other than those selected for the Passport check and send service. Would you please supply confirmation that this restriction is part of the contractual arrangement you have with the Post Office and if so what the rationale is behind such a restriction?
If no such restriction exists can you explain why your application forms are not available in most Post Office Branches? For example is their any legislative impediment that prevents a wider distribution of your application forms?

Yours faithfully,

Mark Baker

Dear Mr Baker

Thank you for your e-mail of 09 January in which you request information
on passport application forms. Your Request is being handled as a request
for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We will aim to send you a full response by 09 February, which is twenty
working days from the date when we received your request.

If you have any questions about the handling of your information request,
please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Her Majesty's Passport Office

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Dear Mr Baker

Thank you for your information request.  Please see the attached reply.

Yours sincerely

Her Majesty's Passport Office

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