Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed by HM Passport Office were specifically tasked with processing passport applications on 1 January, (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014.

The table below shows the number of Her Majesty's Passport Office full-time
equivalents working within the passport operational Directorates.

The formal record for workforce data is made on the last day of each calendar
month. We have therefore provided the data as of 31 December of each year.

(a) 2011: 2,360
(b) 2012: 2,265
(c) 2013: 2,457

Due to the limitations of the HR management system used prior to December 2010,
it is not possible to provide reliable management information below top level
for any periods prior to that date.