Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport examining officers HM Passport Office employed in each year since 2010.
The table below shows the number of Her Majesty's Passport Office full-time equivalents working within operational directorates for passport production, which includes passport examining officers and other front line roles, on the 31 March of each year.
| Number (FTE) |
2011 | 2,586 |
2012 | 2,216 |
2013 | 2,389 |
2014 | 2,593 |
2015 | 3,594 |
2016 | 3,412 |
2017 | 3,219 |