Sentences with phrase «id card scheme»

Independent reviews of progress of the controversial ID card scheme — Gateway Reviews — are periodically produced by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and an activist and a MP used the FOI Act 2000 to request publication of two of these.

Even after the unforgettable data scandal where 25 million private records went missing, following a systemic failure at HM Revenue and Customs (a body set up by Gordon Brown to ensure greater control over Britain's tax system) the expensive ID card scheme still has the green light.

The scrapping of ID card scheme, the National Identity register, the next generation of biometric passports and the Contact Point Database.

At the time he said this would not mean scrapping the controversial ID card scheme, but it has increasingly been questioned whether Mr Brown is waiting until he is firmly in power to announce a change of policy.

With rumours mounting Mr Brown will move away from a national ID card scheme - increasingly criticised for its cost and implications for civil liberties - the shadow home secretary David Davis has called on the soon - to - be prime minister to make his position clear.

Independent estimates now place the total cost of the ID card scheme at # 20 billion.

But he suggested that projects such as the ID card scheme and the replacement for the Trident nuclear deterrent would come under scrutiny.

Why has the Home Secretary not come to the House to make an oral statement on the status of the ID card scheme?

The prime minister insisted the security situation had changed, as emphasised by last week's events in Glasgow and London, and sceptics were increasingly persuaded of the necessity of a national ID card scheme.

- The scrapping of ID card scheme, the National Identity register, the next generation of biometric passports and the Contact Point Database.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have said they will scrap the ID card scheme if they are voted into office.

The shadow chancellor George Osborne said yesterday that HMRC's security breach «must mark the final blow for ambitions of this government to create a national ID card scheme - they simply can not be trusted with people's information.»

Lords reform, tax reform, and some movement on civil liberties (the National ID card scheme, or the Digital Economy Act) would give visible evidence of their policy impact.

Davis believed that once the true cost and unreliability of the ID card scheme was explained to the general public, they would turn against it.

However, he denied the data breach meant the government would be forced to abandon the ID card scheme, which is opposed by both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

«Something surreal is afoot when the government advertises its own failings in order to make the case for new Labour's grandiose ID card scheme,» noted Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg.

The government's move towards a national ID cards scheme, and expansion of IT schemes in the health, welfare and criminal justice systems across the country also made it a pressing issue, he says.

The endless stream of security breaches coming from the government has led many campaigners to say it is incapable of running its controversial ID cards scheme.

None of these things alone are necessarily problematic, but put them together and you have a plan which is almost identical to Labour's ID cards scheme.

New home secretary Alan Johnson is currently setting up a review of the ID cards scheme, from «first principles».

Confusion reigned over the government's proposed ID cards scheme today, as contradictory reports emerged about whether the new home secretary will push ahead with them.

A leading Conservative has warned companies involved in the government's ID cards scheme not to sign any more long - term contracts.

Not exact matches

The revelation undermines the government's case for ID cards, shadow home affairs minister David Davis argued, bringing into question the government's competence to manage the scheme.

We have done many great things in coalition; raising the basic tax threshold; making university education funding cheaper for the poorest; creating the pupil premium scheme to replace EMA; scrapping ID cards; banning wheel clamping on private land; and increasing CGT for higher rate tax payers, to name just a few things.

Acceptable forms are: A Northern Ireland or Great Britain full driving licence or Northern Ireland provisional licence, a passport issued by the UK or other member state of the European Community, a Senior SmartPass issued under the Northern Ireland concessionary fares scheme or an electoral ID card.

Phil Booth, from the campaign group NO2ID, commented: «No doubt the home secretary is relieved to be able to wave a plastic card and claim it for the ID scheme, given her department has now spent over # 100 million pounds of public money; but this is still a cynical branding exercise.

Tony Blair has written to thousands of identity card critics in an attempt to gain support for the scheme, although he concedes that his arguments will do little to convince those who oppose ID cards on the grounds of civil liberties.

Gordon Brown has been called upon to confirm his position on ID cards, amid increasing Westminster speculation he will abandon the government's controversial scheme once prime minister.

The government is currently rolling out the first stage of its ID cards project through the Critical Workers Identity Cards (CWIC) sccards project through the Critical Workers Identity Cards (CWIC) scCards (CWIC) scheme.

In the House of Commons yesterday, the prime minister said that «by its very nature, illegal immigration is very difficult to measure», but insisted that policies such as the electronic borders scheme and ID cards would help to address the problem.

The government's plans for a national identity card (ID) scheme moved up a gear with the launch of the procurement process.

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has taken delivery of some consumables and has begun restocking district offices of the scheme which ran short of some ID card printing materials.

Issuing ID cards will cost more than # 5bn over the next decade while scrapping the scheme now would leave the taxpayer with a relatively small compensation bill to pay.

The concept is also that it would serve as an ID card for every person and could be linked to alternative services such as pension schemes, bank accounts, and UAN.