Clause 22 - Power to authorise other uses of information
Identity Cards Bill
10:45 am
Mr Des Browne (Minister of State (Citizenship, Immigration and Counter-Terrorism), Home Office; Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Labour)
With respect to the hon. Gentleman, he might well have misunderstood me. I did not say that people would be able to make entries in the register for statistical purposes. As I understand it, the Registrar General will not be a Department in terms of clause 19(5), but we can understand that sometime in the future Parliament may wish persons who are not authorities covered by the Bill to have access to that information. If Parliament chooses not to do that, they will not have access.