Mary Foy
Labour, City of Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase resources in HM Passport Office Durham to improve the speed of processing passport applications.
Kevin Foster
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
To support the processing of an unprecedented demand of passport applications, Her Majesty’s Passport Office has increased its staffing numbers across the UK, including the Durham office.
500 new staff have joined HM Passport Office since April 2021, with plans for a further 700 to have joined by the summer.
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