Passport Office boss under pressure to return to HQ full-time as backlog threatens holiday chaos
The TelegraphMs Tierney was appointed director-general of both the Passport Office and UK Visas and Immigration in March 2020, when the pandemic began. Since her appointment to the £160,000-a-year post leading the Passport Office, she has claimed almost £4,500 in expenses for 20 trips to London between March 2020 and July 2021 - a 16-month period during which the Government advised employees to work from home unless absolutely necessary. A Home Office spokesman said: “We have Passport Offices in a range of locations across the UK, with 90 per cent of our staff based outside London. A second official said Ms Tierney did spend time in Leicestershire at her home as part of flexible working and that her job did not require her to be in the London office. Officials confident of hitting 10-week target Staff processing secure passport applications did need to work at the Passport Office’s various locations around the country.
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