Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from which other Departments temporary additional staff at the Passport Office have been deployed; and what training costs have arisen from such redeployment.

To date, all but one of the additional staff have been redeployed from within HM
Passport Office and the wider Home Office.

Discussions are continuing with other Government Departments about whether
deployment of any more of their staff would be necessary.

The training that has arisen from this deployment has been delivered using
internal resources and this has not incurred any additional costs other than
the time of those involved and certain travel and subsistence costs.