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Written Answers — Home Department: National Firearms Register/National Identity Card Project (20 Dec 2005)

Hazel Blears: ...Officer are the only people employed on this project full time. All other areas of PITO contribute time as and when needed. The figure in brackets represents the number of full time equivalents for each year. The Identity Cards Programme expenditure for 2002–03 was £280,801.94, for 2003–04 it was £1,035,717.55 and for 2004–05 it was £12,376,637.77. A total...

Attacks in the Workplace (1 Mar 2005)

Ms Hazel Blears: I am afraid that that picture is still too widespread. Many authorities are using the powers, but my message to others is that they are responsible to the communities that they serve. The powers are on the statute book, and we have to use them to make a difference. My hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian raised important issues concerning ID cards and the idea of people not being able to...

Home Affairs (29 Nov 2004)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...hope and opportunity in the years to come. The Government have tried to look forward in a changing world and anticipate the challenges, using our ingenuity and imagination to formulate the ideas to meet them. There is a fundamental difference between the Opposition and us, and it is best summed up in the recent words of the Prime Minister, who said: "I am an optimist about Britain; and the...

Home Affairs (29 Nov 2004)

Ms Hazel Blears: I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that the police, the security services and all those charged with our protection welcome enormously the prospect of identity cards to tackle serious and organised crime, terrorism and the other threats that face us. Again, I ask him to try to look forward, not back. In an excellent speech, my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Mrs. Cryer) set out her...