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The natural price of a ten-year adult passport in the
UK is £23. It actually costs £77.50. Why?
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| July 2010 |
The
Adventures of Marsham Towers – Birth of the £23 passport |
| 10 August 2010 |
Letter
from Alan Brown, Deputy Director, Policy, Identity & Passport Service |
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| 17 August 2010 |
Letter
to Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury *
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| 2 September 2010 |
Acknowledgement
from the Identity & Passport Service |
| 27 September 2010 |
Reply
from Susan Ronaldson, Director, National Audit Office |
| 7 October 2010 (16 September 2010) |
Reply
from Alastair Bridges, Executive Director, Identity & Passport Service |
| 14 October 2010 |
Letter
to Susan Ronaldson, Director, National Audit Office |
| 21 October 2010 |
Letter
to Alastair Bridges, Executive Director, Identity & Passport Service
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| 3 November 2010 |
Reply
from Alastair Bridges, Executive Director, Identity & Passport Service |
| 4 March 2011 |
Email
to Ian Watmore, Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office |
| 25 March 2011 |
Response
from Sarah Rapson, Chief Executive, Identity & Passport Service |
| 23 April 2011 |
Email to local MP |
| 7 June 2011 |
Response from Sarah Rapson, Chief
Executive, Identity & Passport Service |
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| 23 October 2010 |
The
UK Passport Validation Service – whose income is it anyway? |
| 22 April 2011 |
Lost
passports 'suffer odd fates' |
| 22 July 2011 |
Passport
IT system over ran by hundreds of millions |
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According to Ms Rapson's letter dated 7 June 2011, the Identity &
Passport Service process about 5½ million passport applications
a year.
If
(a) they were all for 10-year adult passports and
(b) a 10-year adult passport costs £77.50 and
(c) it should cost only £23
Then
(d) we are over-paying by £299,750,000 a year.
That is the hypothesis – that Whitehall are causing us to waste
about £300 million a year.
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