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apply", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/authorisation/debt", "label": "FCA: apply to become a debt firm", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.fca.org.uk/authorisation", "label": "FCA: authorisation hub", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/principals-appointed-representatives/move-to-authorised", "label": "FCA: move from appointed representative to directly authorised", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/forms/cc-application-for-authorisations-limited-permissions.pdf", "label": "FCA: consumer credit limited permission application form", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 15 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 13 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 3 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 20 figures, never sentences; 141 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): permission -> pricing category -> fee (category 1 £280 to category 10 £225,170 as the FCA states), the category for each common firm type, and the change on the previous year's table", "embed": "

280 to 225,170 GBP

20 published figures, FCA Application Fee Categories, across 2 sources, read 28 October 2026

Source: fcaauthorisationcost.co.uk FCA Application Fee Categories
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