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The huge pressures facing HM Passport Office workers of continuing low pay, and the stress caused by a lack of planning and poor preparation for the current high demand in passport applications, has been highlighted by MPs.

PCS members at the Plas Menai National Outdoor Centre for Wales, near Caernarfon, are facing the threat of their jobs being transferred to a private employer.

PCS supports recommendations in a report by MPs that MoD should do more to ensure that contracted staff receive comparable employment contracts to staff directly employed by the MoD.

Government plans to restore nature and halt the decline in species in the UK do not address the cliff edge we face in protecting and enhancing the natural environment, says PCS in response to a Defra consultation.

Amid pronouncements from some in government that some agencies should be privatised or shut down, PCS has stressed to the Cabinet Office the vital role that staff in arm's-length bodies have played in keeping the country running during the pandemic.