David Hanson MP, Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister, responding the Passport Office being brought into the Home Office, said:
"This back-of-the-envelope re-organisation is too little too late for the thousands of families who suffered this summer in a passport crisis caused by the complacency and incompetence of Theresa May and David Cameron.
“Belatedly bringing the agency back into the Home Office raises the question about their ability to manage this crisis even now.
"Ministers decided to close overseas offices and sack staff, ministers refused to listen to warnings from the public and the unions and ministers buried their head in the sand until Labour forced them to deal with this issue. Bringing the Passport Office back to the Home Office won’t solve the problem that this Government continues to get it wrong at every turn.
"This is an agency that made a surplus of £124 million in the past two years, so there are important questions to answer on how this transfer will happen, how much it will cost, whether compensation will be paid to families who had to cancel their holidays or pay for a fast track passport, and what assurances will be given to those needing passport services during the transition."