Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the recently employed additional staff in passport offices are estimated to cost.

Her Majesty's Passport Office have been training and redeploying staff from
other duties within the Agency, from other parts of the wider Home Office, and
in the case of one individual another Government department, to meet the
exceptional levels of passport demand. There will be some additional costs
relating to staff where they will be temporarily working away from their normal
workplace and where overtime is worked by staff from other parts of the
Department. At this time it is not possible to put a reliable estimate on
these additional costs.