Clause 5 - Applications relating to entries in Register
Identity Cards Bill
3:45 pm
Mr Richard Allan (Shadow Spokesperson for the Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office; Sheffield, Hallam, Liberal Democrat)
I am grateful to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Anniesland for his sympathy for the spirit of my amendments. I still have particular concerns about the remoteness issue. However, I welcome the Minister's final comments about the ways in which biometrics could be applied selectively; that is important.
On the remoteness issue, the ultimate test is that which will be applied by my hon. Friends the Members for Orkney and Shetland and for St. Ives (Andrew George). Liberal Democrats seem to be good at winning the bits at the end of countries; it is winning the parts in between that we find more challenging. My hon. Friends will want to have more to say about this issue.
Although I may decide to come back at a later stage with better amendments on the same issues, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
The Chairman, being of the opinion that the principle of the clause and any matters arising thereon had been adequately discussed in the course of the debate on the amendments proposed thereto, put forthwith the Question, pursuant to Standing Orders Nos. 68 and 89, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question agreed to.
Clause 5 ordered to stand part of the Bill.