Results 1-11 of 11 for id cards speaker:Vincent Cable

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: HM Revenue and Customs (28 Nov 2007) has video

Vincent Cable: I support the Opposition motion, although it is rather narrowly couched. The hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) broadened it a little to refer to ID cards, but there are much broader questions than those posed by the motion. None the less, I agree with it. We all accept that the starting point is the potential through the loss of the CDs for damage which has not yet been fully realised....

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: HM Revenue and Customs (28 Nov 2007) has video

Vincent Cable: ...the danger, which has now been highlighted, of big centralised databases. The hon. Member for Tatton is right that one of the major lessons from this episode concerns the problems that could arise from the ID card system. However, the underlying issue is that we have big centralised data systems, with large numbers of people who have access to them, so any mistake is compounded on a large...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: HM Revenue and Customs (20 Nov 2007)

Vincent Cable: ...HMRC? Clearly, if officials are being asked to do more and more with fewer staff, mistakes will be made, as they have been here and in relation to tax credits and VAT registration. Is the issue of confidence in Government databases restricted merely to the future ID card system? Is there not a complete lack of confidence in future benefit claims? How on earth are poor people going to have...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (30 Apr 2007)

Vincent Cable: Will the Under-Secretary explain why the ID card cost report, which was due to be published a month ago, did not appear, even though the Government have a legal obligation to ensure its publication?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Pre-Budget Report (6 Dec 2006)

Vincent Cable: ...listened to at least some ofthe advice from the Liberal Democrats about environmental taxation. He has not listened to all of it, because revenue will not be returned in tax cuts for the lower paid, but at least there is something. The Chancellor may not have noticed that the Stern commission report recommended that tough preventive action was needed, amounting to something of the order of...

Orders of the Day: Treasury and Work and Pensions (27 Nov 2006)

Vincent Cable: ...saying that and claiming some of the credit, rather than arguing that we are in a constant state of economic collapse. The British economy is in good shape and, as the International Monetary Fund said recently, our rate of growth is somewhat above the G7 average and certainly more stable. The issue is not whether that happens—it clearly is happening—but whether it can be...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Fundamental Savings Review (13 Jul 2006)

Vincent Cable: I thank the Chancellor for sending us his 66-page report before the statement, but he did not give us the opportunity to respond fully to it. The Prime Minister himself set out the criteria at his party conference, when he stated that the report would describe "where we can save, and where we need to spend more". Since the Chancellor has already indicated where he intends to spend...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (27 Jun 2005)

Vincent Cable: Will the Under-Secretary confirm that, today, he received an independent report from the London School of Economics that concluded that the ID card proposals were too complex, technically unsafe, over-prescriptive, lacked a foundation of public trust and confidence and would cost between £12 billion and £19 billion? Why should we disbelieve an independent expert study of that kind?

The Economy (4 Dec 2003)

Dr Vincent Cable: ...to accept redeployment to provincial cities, where they would be able to work much more cheaply and efficiently. The Queen's Speech contained a perfect example of proposed legislation—the Bill on identity cards—that will result in an enormous waste of public resources. I do not want to rehearse all the civil liberties arguments, but a sophisticated ID card system will require...

The Economy (4 Dec 2003)

Dr Vincent Cable: ...debate drags down the reputation of all hon. Members. We need to have a proper and serious debate about economic policy. I was introducing the matter of the very large costs associated with ID cards. Those costs are not simply financial. All hon. Members have dealt with the immigration and nationality directorate, and know that the Home Office is probably the most incompetent of all...

The Economy (4 Dec 2003)

Dr Vincent Cable: ...necessary that the NHS has an efficient IT system. That system must be successful, or the NHS will not function in the future. We fully support that. I was asking why we should not scrap the ID card proposal, and all the IT nonsense associated with it.