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Passport Office to be stripped of agency status after soaring summer backlog
The Passport Office, the agency blamed for a summer of chaos as a backlog of applications exceeded half a million, is to be made directly accountable to ministers.
Theresa May, the home secretary, announced the move on Friday following two reviews, as well as demands made by the influential home affairs select committee, to strip the Passport Office of its agency status.
The decision means that HM Passport Office (HMPO) will cease to be an executive agency from 1 October.
Passport Office to be stripped of agency status after soaring summer backlog
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/26/passport-office-stripped-agency-status-summer-backlog
