Passports: Fees and Charges
Commons · Question 73383 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 16 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Jess Brown-Fuller
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
Answer
Answered by Mike Tapp, 16 Sep 2025
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.