the passports get redesigned every five years and £500m is the value of the 10 year contract (passport office is also funded from user fees, not from govt.)De La Rue getting the contract in 2009
2015 redesign
So the contract will get renewed in 2019 (and probably given to De La Rue again) and they'll have the option of changing the colour (current colour was never compulsory, it was a voluntary guideline)
(2015 redesign
So the contract will get renewed in 2019 (and probably given to De La Rue again) and they'll have the option of changing the colour (current colour was never compulsory, it was a voluntary guideline)
custard,
Sun 2 Apr 2017, 16:52,
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We could always, you know, go without one redesign and spend that money writing lies on buses instead
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Sun 2 Apr 2017, 16:59,
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try pulling a bus out of your pocket at immigration without raising a few eyebrows
Pootle,
Sun 2 Apr 2017, 22:33,
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