Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by her Department to assist with the processing and issuance of passports on the 1st April of (a) 2010, (b) 2015, (c) 2019, (d) 2020 and (e) 2022.
The table below shows the number of full-time equivalent staff working within Her Majesty’s Passport Office’s passport production-related roles on 1 April* for each year requested.
Number (FTE) | ||||||
2022 | 4,092 | |||||
2020 | 3,609 | |||||
2019 | 2,962 | |||||
2015 | 3,594 | |||||
2010* | 3,978 | |||||
*Data extracted for 2010 has been taken from August as the data for April is not available |