Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the additional revenue the Government has received as a result of people upgrading passport applications in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Upgrades to urgent services are only required where an applicant needs a passport sooner than ten weeks. For the small percentage of customers whose applications take longer than ten weeks, there is an expedited service at no additional cost to help ensure that they receive their passport ahead of their travel.

HMPO does not hold income data by service type. All HMPO income is disclosed in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts which are published annually ahead of summer recess, links for the past 2 years are here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2019-to-2020