Home Office takes charge of passports

[Terpe]

The UK's Passport Office is to be brought under Home Office control and made accountable to ministers, Home Secretary Theresa May has announced.

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[Terpe]

The proof of the pudding................

[Dedworth]

Pugh will be in line for a substantial reward for failure and shoe horned into another cushy, highly paid, public sector non job

[grahamw48]

When will these fools stop 're-organising'/renaming these ministries to cover up their failures ? Start sacking people and putting things right !

Same with our schools.

I blame it on comprehensive education.

Designed to foster mediocrity throughout every aspect of 21st century life.

[Slip]

Took 6 weeks for my new passport I sent off in June to arrive back to me. Not bad considering.

[grahamw48]

I just go up to their office at Durham and get it processed there and then.

'If you want a job doing right'...

[andy222]

Same old tory policies. Cut cut cut. That was the cause of the problem.

[Dedworth]

Same old tory policies. Cut cut cut. That was the cause of the problem.

Labour hived it off as an "Executive Agency" in 2006

[andy222]

Tory cutbacks since they came into power end of.

[joebloggs]

i don't know what's gone wrong at the passport office, its less than 2yrs ago since they were getting praised for their service, i applied for a passport for little joe and it took about 1 week, my new one didn't take much longer

maybe it is down to cutbacks

[grahamw48]

Maybe it's down to the UKBA, Home Office and Passport Office having to cope with all the extra work that Labour's open door immigration policy created, and will continue to do so for many years to come ?

Of course feel free to donate even more of your taxes to pay for extra staff needed for the scrutiny of foreign documents and records, translators etc.

[joebloggs]

nope, as i've posted my misses got her UK passport in a few weeks, little joe a week, mine just over a week.

didn't you renew your passport Graham and it only took a week or so ??

[Dedworth]

Maybe it's down to the UKBA, Home Office and Passport Office having to cope with all the extra work that Labour's open door immigration policy created, and will continue to do so for many years to come ?

Of course feel free to donate even more of your taxes to pay for extra staff needed for the scrutiny of foreign documents and records, translators etc.

Good common sense analysis there Graham

[Arthur Little]

Pugh will be in line for a substantial reward for failure ...

Phew! Now, I can see why I remained a "humble penpusher" throughout my entire working life ... I must've been too good at the jobs I undertook.

[Arthur Little]

Phew! Now, I can see why I remained a "humble penpusher" throughout my entire working life ... I must've been too good at the jobs I undertook!!!

........................................................ 's NOT meant to come across as me "blowing my own trumpet" (nor sour grapes) so to speak. ... it's simply a statement of FACT!

[Arthur Little]

... and shoe horned into another cushy, highly paid, public sector non job

Nothing new, Ded ... ... often tended to be the slipshodrs who got promoted!