Mr James Elsdon -Baker

Email: [FOI #30367 email]

Reference: FOICR 14391/10

Date: 31 March 2010

Dear Mr Elsdon-Baker

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your e-mail of 8 March, in which you ask for information about the Identity and Passport Service's (IPS) job creation in Durham. Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I am able to disclose the following information.

You asked:-

Could you please inform me within the IPS executive agency of the Home Office, exactly how many new jobs have been created in Durham as a result of people working on the National Identity Card Scheme. I'd like to know the FTE equivalent of these posts please, and the number created per fiscal year

2006/7

2007/8

2008/9

2008/10 (until date of request)

The IPS response is:-

IPS has used its current resources to process identity card applications in Durham.

I hope that this information meets your requirements. I would like to assure you that we have provided you with all relevant information that the Identity and Passport Service holds.

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address below, quoting reference FOICR 14391/10.

Information Access Team

Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building

2 Marsham Street

London SW1P 4DF

E-mail: [email address]

As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by members of staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours sincerely

H Reid

Parliamentary & Correspondence Management Team

Passport Adviceline: 0300 222 0000 (07.00 - 23.00 seven days a week).

Email us at [Identity & Passport Service request email]. Visit our website at www.ips.gov.uk.

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Headquarters

Parliamentary & Correspondence Management Team

4^th Floor, Peel Building

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

Tel (020) 7035 8889

Fax (0870) 336 9175

Email [Identity & Passport Service request email]

Web www.ips.gov.uk