[Para 9 as amended by Finance.
DSR 11C
Department)
The UK passport fee is set at a level which will produce
sufficient revenue to offset the administrative and other costs
of the passport-issuing operation in the UK and at posts
abroad, as well as the costs of providing non-feebearing
consular services abroad to British nationals. On present
evidence it is likely that this fee will be more than
enough to cover the costs of the Hong Kong Government.
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are asking the Government to confirm this. If the HK Governmen
were to make a loss it would be difficult to argue that
they should bear it and we should have to look carefully at
the implications for FCO expenditure.
One complicating factor
is that it is at present not known how many of the BDTCS
status
eligible to apply for BN(0) will chose to do so. Of those who
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do, and obtaining a passport is to be an integral part of the
acquisition of the new status, many are unlikely to travel
abroad, so it is most improbable that there would be a
corresponding rise in the call on our consular protection
services.
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