"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 09:35:46 on Sat, 11 Jan
2014, Someone Somewhere remarked:
Can't be many non-chip UK passports left now.

My passport issued in 2006 doesn't have one so that means roughly a third
will not.

Even taking into account the 5yr passports issued to minors, and those
replaced for various reasons (lost/stolen/damaged/full)?

and the fairly reasonable statistic that the newer a passport is, the more
likely it is to be used.

(I wonder how skewed that really is. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find
that it is very significant)

tim