Submitted on Thursday 22nd March 2018
Rejected on Tuesday 27th March 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Stop wasting £490m on changing the colour of the UK passport for no good reason
It turns out that our shiny new blue passports will be produced in France.
This project is costing the taxpayer £490m, yet there is no good reason as to why the colour needs to change, when other EU countries also have blue passports. For this money, we could do so much for the NHS, for example.
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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 current contract for passports ends in 2019, so it needs to be renewed.
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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