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Mr. Burstow
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 5 June 2003, Official Report, column 946W, on passports, how may special file section staff have been employed in each regional office in each of the last five years. [121597]
Beverley Hughes
The figures for staff in post within United Kingdom Passport Service Special Files Departments in each of the last five years are given in the table:
| UK passport service special file section staff | |||||
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | |
| Belfast | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Durham1 | n/a | n/a | 6 | 6.5 | 10.5 |
| Glasgow | 5.25 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 6 | 6.5 |
| Liverpool | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
| London | 8 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 16 |
| Newport | 7 | 7 | 6.5 | 7.5 | 8 |
| Peterborough | 3 | 3.48 | 5.02 | 6.02 | 12.65 |
| 1The Durham Passport Office opened in April 2000 | |||||