Mr. Niall Burgess:

With the leave of the Chair, I will ask Ms Jones in to talk about the reform programme. We are approximately halfway through the passport reform programme and have another couple of years to run on this before it is finally concluded.

On the impact of Brexit, most of the Covid-19 backlog of passport applications are from citizens on this island. The number of applications from citizens in Great Britain is a relatively minor portion of that. An area where we are seeing the impact of Brexit is our foreign births registration. For example, the growing number of foreign birth applications that will need to be processed in the autumn, when we can come to that, contains a very high proportion of applications from Great Britain, possibly in excess of half. I will bring Ms Jones in if she wishes to add anything on this point and on the reform programme.