Topical Questions
Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department
2:30 pm
David Davis (Shadow Home Secretary (Assisted By Shadow Law Officers), Home Affairs; Haltemprice and Howden, Conservative)
I do not look forward to the day when the National Audit Office or anybody else asks for that information and is sent it. Let us look at the other aspect of identity cards: the question of protection. The Home Office is currently prototyping a European-wide identity card project called Project Stork. How will it prevent a repetition of the disaster of the past few weeks when sensitive personal data are held not by one Government but by 27?