Recommendation 21

Rt Hon. Chris Philp MP told us that he endorsed the full-cost system of licence fees - saying that “It is not really fair that the taxpayer generally or police forces subsidise a relatively small group of people” so “the funding of this service… should ultimately fall on the applicant”.78 The Minister stated that, as the Home Office “want to make sure that the police are recovering their costs… [,] specific work is going on to review fees [and t]hat is a piece of work that is actively happening at the moment”79. We are pleased to hear that the UK Government is looking into this issue.