HM Passport Office: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
(asked on 23rd May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to improve recruitment and retention of staff at HM Passport Office, in order to manage the backlog of outstanding passport cases.
This question was answered on 8th June 2022
To support the processing of an unprecedented demand of passport applications, Her Majesty’s Passport Office has increased its staffing numbers across the UK.
650 new staff have joined HM Passport Office since April 2021, with plans for a further 550 to have joined by the summer.