To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much revenue is expected to be generated by fees, including charging for taking biometric information, for (a) identity cards and (b) biometric passports in each of the next 10 years. (243530)

The fees and charges strategy for the next 10 years is still being developed and so the fee revenue for identity cards and biometric passports for each of the next 10 years is not available at this stage. Fee revenue from ID cards and biometric passports will be set to recover the operational resource costs incurred in delivering the products and the fees will be set so that the provision of both identity cards and biometric passports will be self financing for the Identity and Passport Service.

The exact price customers will be charged for a digital photo plus recording of fingerprints will be determined by the market, through commercial competition. So the total fee revenue for taking biometric information is not yet known at this stage.