HM Passport Office: Secondment
(asked on 21st June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Civil Service staff have been seconded to the Passport Office to resolve application backlogs; and how much those secondments have cost the public purse.
This question was answered on 27th June 2022
Her Majesty’s Passport Office routinely uses flexible resource from HMRC to support with peaks in passport demand. In May 2022, 82 full-time equivalents from HMRC were supporting passport services.
Staffing costs, including the use of flexible resources from other government departments, are met by passport fee income.