Sentences with phrase «card schemes»

«Even if the whole ID card scheme stopped today, 70 per cent of the cost of the combined passport and ID card will be incurred in any case,» he said.

The Scottish Conservative party today launched a new campaign against the government's forthcoming national identity card scheme.

I usually stay away from signing up for credit card schemes or opening a new savings account at every bank with a good intro offer.

This in turn means that competition, both between financial institutions and between card schemes, can be directed towards influencing the card that the consumer takes from their wallet to make a payment.

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

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

He has said he will go to court rather than abide by the government's identity card scheme.

The end result is that merchants have to bear the extra costs of the competition between the credit card schemes.

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.

You need to be careful here, as promotional leaflets for many credit card schemes use a neat double - counting trick.

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

If you've a savings scheme for a hamper or Christmas club, got money in PayPal, funds stored with a cashback site or points in a loyalty card scheme, then you may be protected by an industry scheme, but you won't have FSCS protection.

Critics of the controversial ID card scheme say HMRC's failure to properly manage data is proof the government can not be trusted with a large volume of highly personal data.

The government has dropped its Youth Opportunity Cards scheme, children's minister Beverly Hughes has confirmed.

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.

Under card scheme rules, a credit card holder presenting an accepted form of identification must be issued a cash advance over the counter at any bank which issues that type of credit card, even if the cardholder can not give his or her PIN.

Instead, they talk about prepaid card schemes that actually cost hundreds of dollars before you can earn enough for a proper trip, or they suggest credit cards that have large annual fees that also add up.

The idea is that instead of having a huge stack of wound cards this scheme brings that number down to just six when playing solo, and when those run out you lose the game.

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 voluntary national identity card scheme will be launched in Greater Manchester today designed to give young people «day - to - day convenience».

There are many theories about why Tesco became so dominant, with my own being its early and aggressive use of a loyalty card scheme, but whatever the underlying drivers, the results spoke for themselves.

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.

They did not feel that they had much bargaining power vis - à - vis the credit card schemes and the banks.

In order to make it as simple as possible to understand payment costs, banks and other organisations that provide card acceptance services will be required to give each merchant a clear statement of their acceptance cost for each card scheme.

In the National League, the wild - card scheme is proving its value as five clubs are keeping their hopes alive

«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.

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.

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.

And he tried to put the blame on the Conservatives, saying they had opposed many of the measures the government introduced to improve law and order, including a national identity cards scheme and new powers to deport people.

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.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg also expressed concern about how the «worrying loophole in security» shown by the missing passport figures would affect plans for a national identity card scheme.

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.

The government must start from scratch on data instead of pressing ahead with the broken skeleton of their ID card scheme

He warned that as the government sets up more databases of personal information, whether for the new NHS computer system or for the identity cards scheme, it must ensure that the penalties for abusing such data are a sufficient deterrent.

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.»

In their weekly Commons clash, David Cameron asked Gordon Brown if the revelation Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) had compromised the security of millions of people had made him stop and think about the safety of the national ID card scheme.

Speaking at his monthly press conference, the prime minister defended the ID card scheme, and announced that non-EU nationals would be required to have an ID card to work in the UK or access public services as soon as 2008.

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

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.

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

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

Today the Home Secretary is making a written statement, understood to be about the cost of the identity card scheme.

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

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.

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.

David Davis reiterated Conservative calls for the government to abandon the ID card scheme, citing increasing concerns and escalating costs.

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