Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed by the Digital Application Processing development programme in HM Passport Office on 1 January 2021.
The maximum number of people engaged in the development programme is constrained by the number of independent spaces within the technical architecture where change can be made in parallel. Industry leading development practices have been employed to maximise the efficiency and pace of change while minimising the risk to passport processing.