Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill
8:28 pm
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley, Liberal Democrat)
There are 73 million live national insurance records, but only 46.5 million people in this country are entitled to have a national insurance record, and the Government have confirmed in a written answer that they have no idea how many fraudulent records are in the register. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that evidence indicates that we cannot trust the Government to run an identity database?