Cost of ID card and passport rises to £100

Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday November 9, 2007
The Guardian

The cost of providing an identity card combined with a new-generation biometric passport has now passed the £100 mark as the latest official estimate yesterday put the total price tag of the scheme at £5.6bn over the next 10 years.

James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, yesterday indicated that people applying for identity cards from 2009 might have to give their fingerprints in post offices and travel agents, on top of the network of 70 new ID card offices. He disclosed that negotiations were starting to find private outlets to supplement the national network of ID card and passport offices being built across the country. ...

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