Clause 45 - Short title, repeals, commencement,
Identity Cards Bill
5:45 pm
Mr Humfrey Malins (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Woking, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 110, in page 38, line 9, after 'the', insert 'National Registration and'.
I could entertain the Committee for quite a long time on this amendment but I will not. I ask the Minister for a brief response to a brief introduction.
The Bill is about the database, rather than the card. The whole public discussion over the last year or two has centred on ID cards and excluded the database. As the debates have progressed it has become clear that the purpose of the Bill and many of its most worrying contents relate to the register and the information kept thereon. It would be a better reflection of the Bill if the title were not simply the ''Identity Cards Bill'' but something wider, such as the national registration and identity cards Bill.