Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people in her Department have worked on processing passport applications in each year since 2010.
The table below shows the total full-time equivalent staff of Her Majesty’s Passport Office as at 31 March, for the years 2010–2022:
Year | Full-time equivalent |
2010 | 4,017 |
2011 | 3,629 |
2012 | 3,134 |
2013 | 3,284 |
2014 | 3,469 |
2015 | 4,376 |
2016 | 4,059 |
2017 | 3,879 |
2018 | 3,680 |
2019 | 3,620 |
2020 | 3,947 |
2021 | 3,704 |
2022 | 4,466 |