Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria his Department used to calculate the £250 cost for nationality status letters issued by his Department.

The fee of £250 to make an application for a nationality status letter is set at the estimated unit cost to process the application.

The Home Office publish a summary of how estimated unit costs are calculated and include this narrative as a footnote to the table published on Gov.UK, which can be found by the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data