Passports: Fees and Charges
(asked on 26th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what income was obtained from passport fees in each of the last three years.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Her Majesty’s Passport Office publishes information on its income within the Home Office annual report and accounts. A copy of the relevant section of the report and accounts for each of the past three financial years is attached together with the tables fro 2016-17 and 2015-16 below.
Figures for the current financial year will be published within the Home Office annual report and accounts for 2017-18, which will be published before Parliamentary summer recess.The information can also be found in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts at the following links:
Financial year 2016/17, page 90 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017
Immigration Health Surcharge income has not been included in the table below as the service is provided by the Department of Health.
This analysis of income satisfies the Fees and Charges requirements of HM Treasury rather than IFRS 8 Operating Segments. Categories of income and costs below £10 million have been excluded from this analysis.
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Segment | Note | Income | Full Cost | Surplus /(deficit) | Fee recovery actual | Fee recovery target |
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Crime and Policing Group College of Policing - People Development | 1 | 15,235 | 28,681 | (13,446) | 53 | - |
Crime and Policing Group SIA - Licensing and ACS Income | 2 | 24,955 | 22,921 | 2,034 | 109 | 100 |
Crime and Policing Group DBS Disclosures and Update Service | 3 | 154,282 | 140,280 | 14,002 | 110 | 100 |
UK Visas & Immigration International Group - Visas | 4 | 705,376 | 364,158 | 341,218 | 194 | 192 |
UK Visas & Immigration Immigration Group - In country | 5 | 476,999 | 279,322 | 197,677 | 171 | 192 |
HM Passport Office -Passports | 6 | 424,078 | 323,897 | 100,181 | 131 | 100 |
HM Passport Office Certificate Services | 7 | 16,581 | 21,900 | (5,319) | 76 | - |
Enablers Information Services | 8 | 148,318 | 413,269 | (264,951) | 36 | - |
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| 1,965,824 | 1,594,428 | 371,396 |
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Financial year 2015/16, page 109 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016
Immigration Health Surcharge income has not been included in the table below as the service is provided by the Department of Health. Some income streams are charged below the cost of delivery where the Department has to maintain its international competitiveness. To compensate for this, some fees are set above the cost of delivery. In particular, the income for certain in-country applications is set at a level that allows for a contribution towards immigration related activities, in addition to covering the cost of processing applications. The overall aim is to ensure that income contributes to the end-to-end costs of the immigration system.
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Segment | Note | Income | Full Cost | Surplus /(deficit) | Fee recovery actual | Fee recovery target |
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Crime and Policing Group College of Policing - People Development | 1 | 14,581 | 53,357 | (-38,776) | 27 | - |
Crime and Policing Group SIA - Licensing and ACS Income | 2 | 29,567 | 25,536 | 4,031 | 116 | 100 |
Crime and Policing Group DBS Disclosures and Update Service | 3 | 146,646 | 126,937 | 19,709 | 116 | 100 |
UK Visas & Immigration International Group - Visas | 4 | 637,112 | 379,810 | 257,302 | 168 | 169 |
UK Visas & Immigration Immigration Group - In country | 5 | 449,633 | 271,290 | 178,343 | 166 | 201 |
HM Passport Office -Passports | 6 | 476,548 | 411,971 | 64,577 | 116 | 100 |
HM Passport Office Certificate Services | 7 | 14,451 | 12,705 | 1,746 | 114 | 100 |
Enablers Information Services | 8 | 145,665 | 366,660 | (-220,995) | 40 | 1 |
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| 1,914,203 | 1,648,266 | 265,937 |
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Financial year 2014/15, page 111
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441282/HO-AR15_web.pdf
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Segment | Note | Income | Full Cost | Surplus /(deficit) | Fee recovery actual | Fee recovery target | |
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Crime and Policing Group College of Policing - People Development | 1 | 12,391 | 25,918 | (13,527) | 48 | - | |
Crime and Policing Group SIA - Licensing and ACS Income | 2 | 30,218 | 27,502 | 2,.716 | 110 | 100 | |
Crime and Policing Group DBS Disclosures and Update Service | 3 | 144,696 | 137,826 | 6,870 | 105 | 100 | |
UK Visas & Immigration International Group - Visas | 4 | 585,500 | 393,216 | 192,284 | 149 | 148 | |
UK Visas & Immigration Immigration Group - In country | 5 | 429,300 | 198,936 | 230,364 | 216 | 239 | |
HM Passport Office -Passports | 6 | 478,819 | 422,285 | 56,534 | 113 | 100 | |
HM Passport Office Certificate Services | 7 | 14,482 | 12,748 | 1,734 | 114 | 100 | |
Enablers Information Services | 8 | 97,318 | 335,419 | (238,101) | 29 | - | |
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| 1,792,724 | 1,553,850 | 238,874 |
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