Clause 17 - Power to provide for checks on the Register
Identity Cards Bill
5:30 pm
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Assistant Chief Whip, Whips; Cotswold, Conservative)
I want to ask the Minister about one brief point, which seems important. A lot of the scheme is predicated on the basis that certain prescribed people will have access to the readers. Therefore, the readers will be very important, and some at a higher level will have access to more information than others. Will he consider carefully what would happen if a reader were stolen? Will he try to ensure that the technology is such that a reader can be disabled if it is stolen?