Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the yearly change was in numbers of staff working in the Passport Office from (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-2017, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-2019, (e) 2019-2020, (f) 2020-21 and (g) 2021-22.
The table below shows the data held for full-time equivalent staffing numbers at His Majesty’s Passport Office on 31 March, for each year from 2015:
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
4,376 | 4,059 | 3,879 | 3,680 | 3,620 | 3,947 | 3,704 | 4,466 |