Question follow-through · 44759
Passports: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the affordability of the cost of a British passport.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the affordability of the cost of a British passport.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Home Office laid an amendment to the Passport (Fees) Regulations 2022 on 19 March 2025 which increased fees payable for passport applications from 10 April 2025.An Economic Impact Assessment and Equalities Impact Assessment have been published in rela...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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