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Identity Cards Bill: Clause 31 — Tampering with the Register etc. (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: Will the hon. Gentleman remind us what the Prime Minister said about ID cards at the same time?

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 31 — Tampering with the Register etc. (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis), who just made the speech that he wanted to make on Second Reading, but was not allowed to—his speech was better late than never and it was a pleasure to hear it tonight. He was Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee in the previous Parliament and he knows a lot about systems and what can go...

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 31 — Tampering with the Register etc. (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: The hon. Lady is right to remind us that the scheme being put forward is not necessarily comparable to ID card systems in other countries and goes a lot further. The hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) referred to the Home Secretary's unfortunate turn of phrase when he said that the cards will allow people to assert their right to be in the United Kingdom. The Government are...

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 31 — Tampering with the Register etc. (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: My hon. Friend's intervention is helpful. I should like to nail a red herring, if one can nail a herring, in relation to whether one has to carry the cards compulsorily. We debated that in Committee. Most of us carry our irises and fingers wherever we go. The point about being on the database is that people can be checked against it wherever they go—whether they have their ID card with...

Identity Cards Bill: New Clause 4 — Application of Freedom of Information Act (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: ...to the commissioner is that in a financial transaction a bank has denied them access to financial services or they have been hauled up on suspicion of doing something they had not done, because the identity card checking process has gone wrong somehow, as it will do in some cases. In Committee, we discussed the fact that there will be a trickle-down effect. Banks will be offered a...

Identity Cards Bill: New Clause 1 — National Identification Scheme (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: Does the hon. Gentleman have any sympathy with our amendment No. 44 in this group? We may not get to it, but we would like to divide the House on it. In it, we seek to dissociate ID cards from passports. British passport holders are the last people we need to issue with an ID card, as they already have a secure document.

Identity Cards Bill: New Clause 1 — National Identification Scheme (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: ...45, which address issues raised in the Joint Committee on Human Rights report. Amendments Nos. 42 and 43 would restrict the amount of historic address information. That came up in Committee and we did not receive a satisfactory answer. We want to ensure that any address information is necessary and proportionate to that which is sought to be achieved, and we are not yet clear what the...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 45 - Short title, repeals, commencement, (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: I support the amendment. Many of the purposes that the Government wish to achieve will be done through the provisions of the national identity register. The ID cards are an optional extra. Once most of the population are equipped with biometric passports, the ID card will be functionally redundant. I suspect that, at some point in future, a rational decision will be taken not to issue a...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 37 - Fees in respect of functions (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: I understood, having read the record of our proceedings, that on Tuesday there was a wider debate on charges generally, and one specifically about charges that might kick-in in respect of modification of entries on the register. The Minister's response did not advance a definitive position, but suggested that there might be a distinction between changes that require the modification of the...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 39 - Verifying information provided (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: It would be helpful to have a brief moment of clarification. Clause 39 potentially heralds a comprehensive change in the way that information provided for the purpose of applying for passports can be checked and cross-referenced with other Government Departments and agencies. I want it to be made clear that that is the purpose of the clause. The explanatory notes say that it echoes provisions...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 29 - Unauthorised disclosure of information (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: ...the hon. Member for Woking, which would insert the words ''recklessly and knowingly'', we may differ on that matter. We have been accused of being woolly liberals throughout most of the debate on ID cards, but in respect of measures that are included to protect privacy we will join the hon. Gentlemen opposite in the leather-clad authoritarian camp, which is perhaps the converse of a woolly...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 28 - Identity documents for the purposes of s. 27 (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: ...counterpart. I do not know, Ms Anderson, whether you have ever lost your driving licence. I have lost the counterpart on a couple of occasions; it is very easy to lose. One carries the photographic card, but the counterpart gets lost. If a person rings the DVLA and says, ''I have lost my driving licence,'' it asks whether they have lost both parts or one. If the person has lost only the...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 28 - Identity documents for the purposes of s. 27 (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: ...and I am sure that the Minister will deal with it in summing up. However, I am keen to understand the precise relationship between clauses 28 and 27 in the hon. Gentleman's example, where an individual presents a forged driving licence to establish with a police officer, for example, that they are allowed to drive when they are not. Does that count as a clause 27 offence of seeking to...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: As I explained earlier, I recognise passports as being in a different category; it is voluntary to obtain them, which makes them different from a compulsory ID card. I have no objections in principle to the cost recovery for the passport, but we are considering extending that principle to a category of people who neither wish nor need to have a passport, and yet on whom we are potentially...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: ...Minister and the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough and, at her expense, had come down to express their views. That helps to set our proceedings in context: they are important to people outside the House, even if they do not always seem to be. Amendment No. 186 covers some important principles that deal with how we charge people for public services. Because we charge people for...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 7 - Procedure for orders under s. 6 (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: I beg to move amendment No. 86, in clause 7, page 6, line 45, at end add— '(7) Orders made under section 6 shall be considered to be primary legislation for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998.'. In moving the amendment, I am relying on the fact that there is not too much joined-up government at present. That echoes a debate that took place in the context of the Civil...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 - Power of Secretary of State to require registration (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: ...and 131 that were inspired by the organisation Liberty, which raised the issue of the meaning of the word ''civil''. We have engaged in what is technically known as a reverse Dutch auction when we bid down the Conservatives on the level of fee. We bid below them on amendments Nos. 82, 83 and 84 to draw attention to the level of fines and the way in which they will be set. The organisation...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 - Applications relating to entries in Register (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: These are important amendments. Amendment No. 81 would add to clause 5, which is about the initial requirement to register for the national identity register or, as discussed, the initial requirement to attend a place to give biometric data—now for passport applications. That will have a speedy effect on ordinary citizens in the United Kingdom, even before discussion of any compulsion...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 - Applications relating to entries in Register (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: ...the question of motivation. One would have to be pretty weird to want to pass oneself off as an asylum seeker. The motivation to want to crack that system is much less than to crack the national ID card system, where the benefits of gaining a card falsely could be significantly greater.

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 - Applications relating to entries in Register (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Allan: ...Mansfield of the National Physical Laboratory and Marek Rejman-Greene of BTexact Technologies, ''Feasibility study on the use of   biometrics in an entitlement scheme'', which is available on the ID cards website. It contains a number of points that need responding to here, as we are deciding whether the Government should be given permission to proceed with the scheme. In the context...