Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards
Identity Cards Bill
9:10 am
Mr Humfrey Malins (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Woking, Conservative)
On that last point, when hon. Members said to me earlier in our proceedings that this is not public money but private money, the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Allan) rightly pointed out:
''We should not fool ourselves that the money is somehow not public money. I equate a charge that everyone must incur universally as being comparable with the council tax''.—[Official Report, Standing Committee B, 20 January 2005; c 207]
That is a strong point.