As you may be aware, the costs of GRO certificates will rise from £7 to £9.25 on the 6th April. Costs haven’t risen for some years but an extra £2.25 on every certificate. That’s a whopping 32% rise. GRO produces 2 million certificates a year, so that’s 4.5 million extra profit in one swoop. 90% of applications are online now, so their work is reduced but we pay more! They are even scrapping the “checking points”, so no more refunds if it’s not the correct certificate.
Although protesting will probably fall on deaf ears, if we stay quiet, they will think they can hike the costs up whenever they want to. At least we can express how we feel about it. If you agree, please copy and paste the link below into your browser and sign the e-petition.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/grocertificates/
The above was posted to the Glamorgan Rootsweb List (and probably a few others). I am just passing it on.
Phil.