Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed by HM Passport Office on (a) 1 January, (b) 1 February, (c) 1 March, (d) 1 April, (e) 1 May and (f) 1 June 2014.

James Brokenshire

The formal record for workforce data is made on the last day of each calendar
month.
Her Majesty’s Passport Office has employed the following numbers of full-time
equivalents
(FTEs).
(a) On 31 December 2013: 3,333
(b) On 31 January 2014: 3,390
(c) On 28 February 2014: 3,434
(d) On 31 March 2014: 3,469
(e) On 30 April 2014: 3,489
(f) On 31 May 2014: 3,506

In order to ensure that the data is reported on a consistent basis, figures for
April and May figures include 196 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) corporate services
staff that transferred to the Home Office on 1 April 2014. This was part of a restructure
of the Home Office Corporate Services function.

Figures are for permanent civil servants employed by Her Majesty’s Passport
Office, including Part Year Appointments and permanent members of staff
employed on contracts for 9 months of the year. This excludes staff on secondment
or loan, and agency and temporary staff – with these staff included, the March 2014
figure is 3,444.

Please note, Her Majesty’s Passport Office records migrated to the Department’s
strategic record system during this period and are subject to enhanced validation
checks. Several months in this time series have a variance of +/- 2 FTE.