Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ivan Lewis on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional support she is providing to the passport office in Belfast.

James Brokenshire

The Belfast Office Full Time Equivalent (FTE) workforce in June 2014 was 216.29
compared with 147.76 FTE in June 2012. The increase in staff has been to deal
with the introduction of processing of work from overseas in 2013-14 and the
introduction of an evening shift in January 2014 to assist in dealing with UK applications.
Currently there are 20 additional staff redeployed to Belfast to assist in the
examination function.