Question follow-through · 40123
Passports: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether His Majesty's Passport Office has considered introducing an option for payment for passports in instalments over 10 years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether His Majesty's Passport Office has considered introducing an option for payment for passports in instalments over 10 years.
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2025
Answer published
An instalments approach would place a considerable administrative burden on HM Passport Office to seek payment when they are due and take action where payment is not made.Where a fee is required, the full payment must accompany the application.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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