The Government Passport Service has been accused of deliberately insulting non-Welsh speakers who constitute the vast majority of residents in Monmouthshire. The accusation has been made by local MP David Davies, who was reacting to a complaint from a local family who last week applied for a passport for their five year old son. After filling out the online application form and putting down their address as Monmouthshire the couple, Monica and Christian Brown, received a hard copy to check through in which their address was referred to as "Sir Fynwy". Mr Brown said "I phoned the passport office to say that we wanted our address recorded as Monmouthshire and was told that they had taken a decision to use Welsh place names and that there was nothing I could do about it. I was furious. "I believe that the Welsh language should be preserved but not forced on people against their will. My family have lived in the county known as Monmouthshire for generations and Monmouthshire is how I want it to be recorded". Local MP David Davies has complained to the Passport Office, who have promised to investigate the matter. Mr Davies said on Monday "People should be free to choose whether they want to use the English or Welsh versions of their address. If the Passport Office cannot manage that they should take the common sense approach. "The county was formed by the England and Wales Act of 1535 which referred to the county by its English name and English is the language of the vast majority who live here. "This looks like yet another example of predominantly non-Welsh speaking bureaucrats trying to force Welsh onto an unwilling populace. As someone who can speak the language fluently I believe that the public should be given a choice. "I welcome the investigation and I will strongly oppose any attempts by bureaucrats to extinguish the name of Monmouthshire from historic records".