Results 1-20 of 113 for id cards speaker:Des Browne

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: National Identity Register (4 Jun 2008) has video

Des Browne: It is nothing of the sort. The hon. Gentleman has asked me questions at the Dispatch Box about the ID card scheme before. On the last occasion, it was manifest that he did not understand his party's policy of support for 80 per cent. of the scheme. The scheme underpins e-passports, and 80 per cent. of the cost and administration of the scheme is required for the e-passport scheme that his...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: MOD (Data Loss) (21 Jan 2008) has video

Des Browne: ...I dealt with him, his party colleagues and others in relation to similar matters. I am well aware of the potential security implications. It is clear that the protection of data is relevant to the identity cards scheme, but as the hon. Gentleman is probably aware, the scheme is underpinned by biometric data that will protect people's identities from being taken and/or used. That is the...

Written Answers — Treasury: Identity Cards (12 Jan 2006)

Des Browne: The Treasury has not conducted any separate estimates of the costs of creating and maintaining a national identity card. However, as with other policy formulation, the Treasury contributed to the cross-government estimates of the costs and benefits of ID card scheme led by the department leading the policy area, in this case the Home Office. The estimates for the global costs for the scheme...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Theft (4 Apr 2005)

Mr Des Browne: The Home Office Identity Fraud Steering Committee, a collaboration of Government Departments and private sector organisations, has produced a website (www.identitytheft.org.uk) which offers advice on how individuals can protect their identity. This includes keeping personal information secure, keeping plastic cards safe and being careful when giving out card details, looking after important...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum Seekers (17 Mar 2005)

Mr Des Browne: ...contained details of our plans through e-Borders to introduce an electronic system of counting in and out visitors to the UK. Automated electronic checks will record people's movements to provide a greatly enhanced passenger movement audit with significantly more reliable inbound and outbound data information than any of the border agencies have been able to obtain in the past. The...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum Seekers (10 Mar 2005)

Mr Des Browne: ...answer 8 March 2005 Information on numbers of Iranian citizens in the UK after having been refused asylum is not currently available and could be produced only at disproportionate cost. Some individuals refused asylum may have been granted humanitarian protection or discretionary leave following initial decision or appeal outcomes. Some of those refused asylum are awaiting appeal outcomes...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards and Passports (21 Feb 2005)

Mr Des Browne: The topic of discussion at the meeting between the Identity Cards Programme and TMG.TV Ltd. which was representing the Football Association was the potential use of ID Cards for those organisations who either currently or may in the future require certain employees to undertake Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks. In this instance, the discussion focused around local football teams and...

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

Mr Des Browne: ...which of the 21 out of 25 members of the European Union that are social democracies are also breaching that article of the European convention on human rights—some of them with compulsory ID card schemes that require people to carry them?

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

Mr Des Browne: ...manipulated, they were not. In the few minutes that remain, may I try to reassure hon. Members who want to be satisfied that the Government intend the commissioner to work with teeth and be a formidable person? The Government's response to the report of the Home Affairs Committee made it clear that we accepted the recommendation that the national identity scheme commissioner should have a...

Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Des Browne: ...that was not taken up. It is clear to me that, at least in part, some Opposition Members were making use of parliamentary procedures to frustrate the passage of the Bill. As a result, we had to divide the timetable today to ensure that all parts of the Bill are properly scrutinised. That is the purpose of the motion. It is a consequence of what was done in Committee. On Second Reading, the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (9 Feb 2005)

Mr Des Browne: ...Organisation) recommendations on biometric travel documents. It will be a close proximity-type chip that can only work within 0–2 cm of a reader. No decision has yet been made on whether the ID Card will contain a chip capable of being read through a contactless interface. Work is progressing on developing the technical, interoperability, security and business requirements which...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards/Passports (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Des Browne: The ID Cards Scheme has not yet reached the Gateway 1 stage of the Office of Government Commerce classification of major programmes which is the stage at which a formal security evaluation is required. However it is likely that the evaluation will conclude that the scheme will be part of the country's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). As such it will be subject to Government security...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards Bill (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Des Browne: holding answer 4 February 2005 ID cards will be issued to people resident in the United Kingdom, not to those who reside elsewhere and visit the UK, whether on a regular basis or not. The status of Irish citizens in the UK will not change should the Identity Cards Bill be enacted. They will be treated in accordance with the British Nationality Act 1948 and the Ireland Act 1949 and the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards and Passports (Forgery) (4 Feb 2005)

Mr Des Browne: ...) is taken very seriously by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, HM Customs and the police. In addition to referrals from HM Customs and the police service, fraudulent travel documents are identified by the Immigration Service at ports of entry as well as during enforcement operations. There is no single central record of the total number of forged passports confiscated or...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards/Passports (2 Feb 2005)

Mr Des Browne: Qualitative research was commissioned during the consultation period on the draft legislation to examine current public perceptions of ID cards. 18 group discussions were conducted with members of the public at 11 locations. Two group discussions took place at each of the following locations: London W1; Erdington, Birmingham; Wimborne, Dorset; Bridgend; East Cramlington, Northumberland;...

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

Mr Des Browne: The hon. Gentleman is right in that the clause mirrors for passport applications the identity checking provisions for national identity register enrolment under clause 11. The provisions for passport applications will be brought into effect by clause 45(5) two months after Royal Assent by the same method as the previous clause that we considered. The genesis of the amendment lies in the...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 40 - Amendments of legislation (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Des Browne: The hon. Gentleman has raised a reasonable point. In the event that, under the Football Spectators Act 1989 and the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, identity cards that are suitable for travel are surrendered as well as passports in connection with football orders, he is absolutely right. Those individuals will have to be allowed to have an identity card that allows them access to...

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

Mr Des Browne: ...I listened carefully to an exhortation by the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon to use language that people understand. It seems that the people of this country clearly understand identity cards. Indeed, interestingly enough, the identity card scheme of 1939 was introduced under the National Registration Act 1939. However, I pray in aid the logic of the right hon. Gentleman: how many...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 38 - Amendment of Consular Fees Act 1980 (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Des Browne: I rise to respond, in so far as I can, to the hon. Gentleman's point. The policy in relation to ID cards for those pensioners who are entitled to free passports has not yet been fixed. However, there is a logic in what the hon. Gentleman says, and I will bear his comments in mind when the time comes to make those decisions, and I am sure that the Secretary of State will, too. The clause...

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

Mr Des Browne: ...are required by EU law to be open. That aspect will be as open as possible so that the Government can be assured that they get best value for money. However, I can say that the agency issuing the ID cards will be UK based, and it is intended that that agency will build on the UK Passport and Records Agency. I am very mindful of the fact that the law on procurement allows the Government to...