Hundreds marched through Newport after the passport office plans were announced The UK government minister in charge of passports is facing questions from Welsh MPs over plans to close the Newport office in south Wales.
More than 250 jobs are expected to go if the plans are approved.
Home Office minister Damian Green, has been called to give evidence to the Welsh affairs committee at Westminter.
He will be joined by the chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), Sarah Rapson.
The meeting was called after Mr Green announced at the beginning of October that consultation was to begin on the closure of the Newport passport office.
The decision sparked an angry response from unions, opposition politicians and staff, with hundreds taking to the streets of Newport in a protest.
The IPS has insisted that the changes are necessary to reduce the size of the organisation and ensure it is more efficient.
It said its analysis had found that closing Newport would result in “the greatest reduction of spare capacity at the lowest cost to the taxpayer”.
But Labour Newport West MP, Paul Flynn has described the proposal as “butchery”.
Addressing protesters in the city in October, he said: “There’s nothing rational about this – it’s unfair, it’s brutal, it’s cruel and cuts away jobs from Wales in a way only Tories can do.
“Any party that supports this will be political pariahs in Newport and Wales for a generation.”
The Welsh affairs committee, which is chaired by the Conservative MP for the neighbouring constituency of Monmouth, David Davies, will also hear evidence from the PCS union and Newport city council.
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