Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of staff worked in HM Passport Office processing applications for first passports for UK children born overseas in May (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) 2015; and if she will make a statement.
Her Majesty’s Passport Office deploys its workforce flexibly across different types of work in order to manage performance against service standards. As individual staff process several different types of application it is not possible to provide a breakdown of how many work solely on first time applications for children born overseas.