To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what forecasts her Department has made of levels of fee income from (a) British and (b) foreign nationals for passport, visa and other immigration-related documents and services in (i) 2008, (ii) 2009, (iii) 2010, (iv) 2011 and (v) 2012. (227532)

The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and UK Border Agency (UKBA) are the two Home Office service providers for passports, visas and other immigration document and services.

IPS is currently forecasting that it will receive in the region of £377 million in passport related fees in the 2008-09 financial year.

The budgeted figure for passport related fees for the 2009-10 financial year will be finalised early next year. Forecasts of passport related fees for the years after 2009-10 can only be made after the outcome of a full fees and charges strategy review is completed. An IPS fees and charges strategy review is needed as ID cards are being introduced for British citizens from 2009. IPS will need to reassess its future product prices as it will have to recover its costs over a different range of products. UKBA forecasts are independent of IPS fees and charges strategy as the visa and immigration documents business is separate from the passport and ID card business.

The UKBA estimate of fee income for 2008-09 from visa applications is £300 million. The estimated fee income for 2008-09 from in-country applications is £350 million.

UKBA is reviewing the position for 2009-10 for in and out-of country fees in the run-up to laying fees regulations early 2009. Estimates of fee income for the subsequent three years have yet to be made.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department received in passport, visa and other immigration-related fees from (a) British and (b) foreign nationals in (i) the first six months and (ii) the second six months of each of the last five years. (227534)

The annual income received from British nationals for passports services in each of the last five financial years is as follows:

The annual income received by the Home Office for immigration services in each of the last five financial years is as follows:

The Home Office only assumed full responsibility for visa income from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from 2008-09 onwards. Full year totals for visa income (excluding notional income for gratis visas) for the last five year—as provided by FCO—are as follows: