Passport Renewal

Bob_the_Saver

Either way, darry isn't going to get a freebie and if they book will probably get sent on a course that week.

larry_lurex

mcfisco wrote: »

Try 6.5 million+, or in monetary terms about a month's worth of JSA payments for the whole of the UK

You seem obsessed with JSA, all scroungers, aren't they ...

If 6.5m is the number of issued passports per year that would make it ten percent so I presume you have simply divided the population by the ten year validity. I further presume that you presume that every UK citizen who dies is replaced by a fresh faced UK citizen.

Included in that number are many children (whose passports seem cheaper to make (wink!)) and many whose passports are issued with a discount or free. Even the total cost would be £250m per year, that is still nothing.

mcfisco

You seem obsessed with JSA, all scroungers, aren't they ...

Not at all, unless you include my advice to plan your holiday around your sign on days, if I really had the attitude you're alluding to, I would hardly have suggested that, would I?
However, I definitely do not think passports should be paid from taxes
If you don't like the comparison of how much JSA it would cost to finance, we could simply call it a large general hospital if that helps?

Bob_the_Saver

Warning, this thread May contain traces of nuts

peachyprice

larry_lurex wrote: »

Included in that number are many children (whose passports seem cheaper to make (wink!))

Children's passports aren't cheaper to make or buy, they cost £46 for only 5 years.

larry_lurex

peachyprice wrote: »

Children's passports aren't cheaper to make or buy, they cost £46 for only 5 years.

Not that it matters but the number of years they are valid for is irrelevant here. It is the cost to produce them which matters. And that is nowhere near £46 or £72.50.

I am happy with anyone calling me a nut or Nut. Just do not make me join the NUT.

mcfisco

Even if it is £50m it would cost the state, anyone familiar with debt (approaching a trillion) would agree it would be a drop in the ocean.

Even the total cost would be £250m per year, that is still nothing.

BTW one of the reasons we have a trillion pounds of debt is too many politicians over the years have been persuaded or felt they needed to bribe the electorate into voting for them and so convinced themselves that the odd £50M or £250M here and there is merely a drop in the ocean

larry_lurex

mcfisco wrote: »

BTW one of the reasons we have a trillion pounds of debt is too many politicians over the years have been persuaded or felt they needed to bribe the electorate into voting for them and so convinced themselves that the odd £50M or £250M here and there is merely a drop in the ocean

The reason that from 2010 onwards nobody took millions seriously anymore is Gordon Brown. Everybody knows that.

I was not on about the cause but the consequence - two or three hundred million do not matter now considering the trillion which will never be paid off.

smudge56

larry_lurex wrote: »

Not that it matters but the number of years they are valid for is irrelevant here. It is the cost to produce them which matters. And that is nowhere near £46 or £72.50.

I am happy with anyone calling me a nut or Nut. Just do not make me join the NUT.

The passport office doesn't make any profit from the passports. (That's why the fee went DOWN recently) Consular fees are added on to the price. This is to pay for any consular assistance you may be unfortunate to require whilst abroad.

dzug1

larry_lurex wrote: »

Not that it matters but the number of years they are valid for is irrelevant here. It is the cost to produce them which matters. And that is nowhere near £46 or £72.50.

Given that the passport office is not allowed, overall, to set out to make a profit (or loss) how do you explain the prices then?