Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 33156 on British Nationality, what is meant by (a) estimated unit cost and (b) maxima in the table entitled Table with details of fees and unit costs: 11 December 2024.

A fee maxima is the maximum fee level that can be charged for each product and service, with these maximas set out in the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Order 2016. The actual fee that can be charged is set in the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 and must be set at or below the fee maxima.

A Unit Cost represents the estimated full financial cost of providing the relevant service, it includes direct costs; relevant local and central overheads (e.g. accommodation, HR, Finance and IT); depreciation; cost of capital employed, and; other factors that are in connections to immigration and nationality, such as operational policy.