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 (a) 1 January, (b) 1 February, (c) 1 March, (d) 1 April, (e) 1 May and (f) 1 June 2014.

The formal record for workforce data is made on the last day of each calendar
month.
The table below shows the number of Her Majesty's Passport Office full-time
equivalents working within the passport operational Directorates.
(a) On 31 December 2013: 2,457
(b) On 31 January 2014: 2,515
(c) On 28 February 2014: 2,559
(d) On 31 March 2014: 2,593
(e) On 30 April 2014: 2,611
(f) On 31 May 2014: 2,629

Please note, Her Majesty'sPassport Office records migrated to the Department's
strategic record system during this period and are subject to enhanced validation
checks. Several months in this time series have a variance of +/- 2 FTE.