Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the planned increase of passport fees will be used to pay for anything additional to the cost of issuing passports and consular support for British nationals abroad.

I refer the Hon. Member to the recent announcement on the planned increase of passport fees, which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-proposes-changes-to-passport-application-fees