Submitted on Sunday 2nd April 2017
Rejected on Tuesday 11th April 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Leave the design of the UK passport as it is and give the £490M saved to the NHS
The Home Office has tendered a £490M contract to redesign and replace the UK passport, post-2019. Some see the current burgundy passport as a source of national humiliation, imposed on the UK by the EU. Instead, we think that giving the £490M to the NHS would be a stronger gesture of our sovereignty
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The UK passport is routinely redesigned every five years to guard against counterfeiting. The Government is launching the procurement process now to ensure there is sufficient time to produce and design UK passports from 2019 when the current contract ends. The contract covers design, print, assembly and personalisation of passports.
We're not sure whether you would like the UK passport not to be redesigned at all, including to protect against counterfeiting. You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
You can find out more about the procurement process for the new contract here:
www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ed7d8332-74cd-4e83-a41c-01472667348b?p=@NT08=UFQxUlRRPT0=NjJ
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