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date	12/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed by HM Passport Office on 1 January (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	200368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The formal record for workforce data is made on the last day of each calendar <br>month.<br><br>The data as of 31 December in each year were as follows.<br><br>31 December 2010: 3,700 full-time equivalents<br>31 December 2011: 3,286 full-time equivalents<br>31 December 2012: 3,164 full-time equivalents<br>31 December 2013: 3,333 full-time equivalents<br><br><br>These figures are for permanent civil servants employed by HMPO, including part <br>year appointments and permanent members of staff employed on contracts for nine <br>months of the year. This excludes staff on secondment or loan, and agency and <br>temporary staff - with these staff included, the March 2014 figure is 3,444.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 15:48:05 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1833 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

61357

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the recently employed additional staff in passport offices are estimated to cost.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	200287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Her Majesty's Passport Office have been training and redeploying staff from <br>other duties within the Agency, from other parts of the wider Home Office, and <br>in the case of one individual another Government department, to meet the <br>exceptional levels of passport demand. There will be some additional costs <br>relating to staff where they will be temporarily working away from their normal <br>workplace and where overtime is worked by staff from other parts of the <br>Department. At this time it is not possible to put a reliable estimate on <br>these additional costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 14:11:37 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1295 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

61397

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) new passports and (b) passport renewals there have been in the last year; and what the annual change in such figures has been.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	200217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>During the period between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014, Her Majesty's Passport Office <br />received <del class="ministerial">1,446,983</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,425,885</ins> first time passport applications and <del class="ministerial">4,528,751</del> <ins class="ministerial">4,461,343</ins> passport <br />renewal applications.<br /><br />This compares with 1,346,246 first time applications and 4,036,267 passport <br />renewal applications during the period between 1 June 2012 and 31 May 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 14:03:02 question first ministerially corrected 02/09/2014 14:35:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 8681 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

61471

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewal applications have been received by HM Passport Office since the beginning of the current financial year; and what proportion of such applications were completed and dispatched within (i) three and (ii) four weeks.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	200199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>During April and May 2014, Her Majesty's Passport Office received:<br><br>(a) 319,639 new passport applications.<br>(b) 1,044,840 passport renewal applications.<br><br>Her Majesty's Passport Office does not hold passport application processing <br>data in the format requested, although we can advise that 96.1% of straightforward <br>applications were processed within 3 weeks and 96.9% of non straightforward <br>passport applications were processed within the 6-week target.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 14:12:53 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 1309 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier