Clause 30 - Providing false information
Identity Cards Bill
6:15 pm
Andy Burnham (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Leigh, Labour)
If it will help, I shall repeat the point. Deliberate behaviour is obviously covered by the intention to supply false information. That is the deliberate act. Recklessness is where people provide information knowingly, rather than mistakenly or negligently. They know the risks involved in doing so. There is a difference. Obviously the intent is within the Bill. Recklessness, being a higher test than negligence or anything else, is also in the Bill. I think that clarifies the point, or at least I hope it does.