MSE News: Passport prices to increase 30 January 2018 at 1:35PM in Overseas holidays & travel planning 21 replies 8.5K views

Former_MSE_Megan_F

Online passport application prices are set to increase by £3 and postal applications by £12.50 - but there's a way to lock in the cheaper prices if you're due to renew this year...

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One-Eye

Cost of passport:

1999 £28
2002 £30 (Jan)
2002 £33 (Nov)
2003 £42
2005 £51
2006 £61
2007 £72
2009 £77.50
2012 £72.50
2018 £75.50/£85

mro

One-Eye wrote: »

Cost of passport:

1999 £28
2002 £30 (Jan)
2002 £33 (Nov)
2003 £42
2005 £51
2006 £61
2007 £72
2009 £77.50
2012 £72.50
2017 £75.50/£85

That last line should be 2018.

It says below that it currently costs £72.50 and is increasing to £72.50(online)/£85(post) in March.


Cost of British passport to increase

The price of a British passport is to rise by £12.50 from 27 March for those applying by post.

Currently, an adult's passport costs £72.50 regardless of how you apply for it but under government plans this would rise by 17% up to £85.

The cost of online applications will also go up - but only by £3 to £75.50.

Fantastic, another whopping increase people can't afford !

photome

still cheap

even at the most expensive its only £8.50 a year

Kim_13

Cheap if you go abroad often I suppose, but very expensive for those who might only go once or twice in the lifetime of the passport.

mgdavid

MSE Megan - there are already 3 other threads on this subject, did you not think to check first?

martinbuckley

Kim_13 wrote: »

Cheap if you go abroad often I suppose, but very expensive for those who might only go once or twice in the lifetime of the passport.

When you take into account a one day entry ticket to Alton Towers is £50, is £75.50 for a 10 year passport really that expensive?

photome

Kim_13 wrote: »

Cheap if you go abroad often I suppose, but very expensive for those who might only go once or twice in the lifetime of the passport.

Even if used twice it’s only £40 on top of the cost of the trip

tastyhog

mro wrote: »

Fantastic, another whopping increase people can't afford !

yet they can afford to go on foreign holiday, how curious.

I'd hardly class a £3 increase for a 10 year service to be a whopping increase.

mro

tastyhog wrote: »

yet they can afford to go on foreign holiday, how curious.

I'd hardly class a £3 increase for a 10 year service to be a whopping increase.

It's £12.50 increase or 17% increase.

phillw

martinbuckley wrote: »

When you take into account a one day entry ticket to Alton Towers is £50, is £75.50 for a 10 year passport really that expensive?

The link between a passport and a day ticket to alton towers is pretty tenuous. Especially when you consider you can buy a season pass for £55, so the cost per day isn't linear.

Alton Towers has to provide an expensive service every time you visit, while the passport cost is all up front.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118636/17949-breakdown-costs-passport.pdf

Application Processing £31.60
FCO Consular Premium £15.62
Production & Personalisation of Book £10.79
Delivery £3.30
Overhead/Administration £16.19
Total £77.50

I'm pretty sure however that all those numbers are made up to come to the figure they want. They've decided they want a new total and they're now busy working out how to make it look reasonable.