E-Petition for BMD access

[BettyofKent]

I've signed.


Betty

[thornhill121]

Me too.

I would just like to say it is really quick and easy, only takes a minute.

[davidft]

This is doomed to failure.

There is a Government directive on Fees and Charges that requires that services like this charge a sum sufficient to recover the full cost of providing these services. The alternative is for them to be funded out of general taxation. Obviously the Government is not keen on adding to the burden of taxation if it can avoid it and full cost recovery of these "discretionary services" is an effective toll in this respect.

[Preshous]

So lets vote the government out and put someone in who will listen to us. Nothing ventured nothing gained.

[davidft]

So lets vote the government out and put someone in who will listen to us. Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Oh yeah people are going to vote out this, or any, Government so that your hobby can be financed by the public purse. I don't think so ................

[Preshous]

So we just give up then.

[ankerdine]

Nothing ventured nothing gained! I've signed it.

J

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

This is doomed to failure.

There is a Government directive on Fees and Charges that requires that services like this charge a sum sufficient to recover the full cost of providing these services. The alternative is for them to be funded out of general taxation. Obviously the Government is not keen on adding to the burden of taxation if it can avoid it and full cost recovery of these "discretionary services" is an effective toll in this respect.

Absolutely true, the cost of a certificate extends beyong simply copying the contents of the register, for a start the storage and archiving of the millions of records has a cost. It isn't that long ago that certificates were considerably more than £7.

I find it quite amusing to see comments against the expense of certificates but see people who willingly purchase and spend large sums of money on credits to view the 1911 census.

[Sloe Gin]

It's still probably true, as Liz said, that if they charged less for certificates, people would buy more of them and spend more in total.