Passports: Fees and Charges
(asked on 7th April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
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.
Answered by
Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
This question was answered on 28th April 2025
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 relation to those passport fee increases and can be found via the following links: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2025/55/pdfs/ukia_20250055_en.pdf and https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/363/pdfs/uksiod_20250363_en_002.pdf.