Clause 10 - Functions of persons issuing designated documents
Identity Cards Bill
10:19 pm
Alistair Carmichael (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Orkney and Shetland, Liberal Democrat)
I cannot remember what I said before we were interrupted, although I had not said an awful lot and I certainly do not have an awful lot to say.
The basis of the amendment is to break the link between designated documents and the identity card. Clause 10(2) states:
''A designated documents authority which issues a designated document to an individual who does not hold a valid ID card must ensure that the document is issued together with an ID card satisfying the prescribed requirements.''
On a number of occasions today, I have expressed the view that the link between identity cards and prescribed documents is not healthy. As I have said already, it is compulsion by stealth.