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Passports: Fees and Charges

Asked by Jess Brown-FullerLiberal DemocratHome OfficeTabled Answered 16 September 2025UIN 73383

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing schemes that that would reduce the cost of replacement passports to those in receipt of (a) state and (b) other pen

Answered by Mike Tapp

All income from passport fees is used to meet the cost of processing passport applications and delivering associated services, and any reduction in fees would need to be considered in terms of its impact on the funding of those services.

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