Clause 3 - Information recorded in Register
Identity Cards Bill
11:15 am
Andy Burnham (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Leigh, Labour)
I apologise, Mr. Hood, for having made an intervention in that way.
A moment ago, the hon. and learned Gentleman questioned whether we had any interest in making the register and the cards useful to the police. I refer him to clause 1(4)(b), which states that the Bill is
''for the purposes of the prevention or detection of crime''.
How on earth could the structures that we are creating not be of use to the police? Surely that is at the very heart of the Bill.