United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 28868
Passports: Applications
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1 July 2022
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14 July 2022 · Answer
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14 July 2022
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department have been (a) redeployed and (b) hired since March 2022 to alleviate delays in processing passport applications; and if she will make a statement.
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1 July 2022
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department have been (a) redeployed and (b) hired since March 2022 to alleviate delays in processing passport applications; and if she will make a statement.
Source: Commons
14 July 2022
Answer
Since April 2021, Her Majesty’s Passport Office have added over 850 additional staff to help meet the current unprecedented demand for passports, with almost 400 of these staff brought in since March 2022. A further 350 staff will added during the summer....
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-07-01/28868
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1485325
- uk · wq-1485325 · source updated 14 July 2022