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Oral Answers to Questions — Home: Identity Cards (13 Feb 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: For the 38 million people who are likely to have to register for an ID card—those over 16 and those who have been here for more than three months—can the Home Secretary tell us what the cost will be of the combined passport and ID card? If the estimate of £5 billion over 10 years is correct, it is on my calculation likely to be in excess of £120.

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

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I would be grateful if the Minister clarified his thinking on this clause. It allows cross-subsidy with regard to certain groups of people applying for passports. When the Bill comes into effect, the identity card will be an integral part of applying for a passport. Pensioners who apply for a passport have been receiving them free of charge for the last little while; will that also extend to...

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

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I hear what the Minister says, but a birth certificate is one of the documents that one is required to produce to prove one's identity while obtaining a passport. For that official purpose, it is regarded as an identity document. When an ID card is first issued, people will have to produce proof of identity, presumably. If they do not have a passport or a driving licence—there must be a...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 13 - Invalidity and surrender of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...of this Committee that for first-time passport applications people would have to attend the office to prove that they were the person who was entitled to the passport. Will the same be true of ID cards? If not, a lot of ID cards could be sent all over the place and not go to the people who are entitled to them. Secondly, an underworld industry will grow up to impersonate people with wrong...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...vote on this motion, and the Government will no doubt use their majority to succeed. If they succeed, you will have to put the question. That will mean that important clauses entitled ''Renewal of ID cards for those compulsorily registered'', ''Functions of persons issuing designated documents'' and ''Power to require information for validating Register''—vital clauses—will be...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I wish to probe my hon. Friend because he is an expert on immigration and the need for passports. How does he think the scheme will work in practice with European nationals who have an ID card of their own, but who then come to this country for employment purposes for three months? They will be saddled with the extra cost of having to have an extra identity card, when they will probably still...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Will my hon. Friend consider that, if my costings are right and a card is to cost £116, it will cost an average family—two parents and two children—nearly £500 to get their identity cards? They can easily get cheap flights for £20 or £30 each, so the cost of the flights is likely to be less than £150, yet they will have to pay £500 for the ID cards....

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: One way of painlessly introducing ID cards—if that is what we want to do—is to give everybody an identity card number at birth free of charge. In that way, within a relatively short period of time, most of the population would have got a card.  

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: You are making some very helpful rulings this morning, Mr. Conway, but I should say in passing that my hon. Friend is right in what he said. We will have a debate on it later. That is another additional cost to which I had not yet alluded. It is part of the central cost that every one of us who is a taxpayer will have to bear. Not only will that be in addition to the personal, one-off...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...manually, which takes 20 weeks. Therefore, some constituents will not have their money for that period. If such computer systems are liable to break down, how will the computer system cost for ID cards be able to be calculated, and can we be sure that the system will work anyway?

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: If my hon. Friend will contain himself, I shall give way to everybody in a minute or two. The number of under-16s, who will not be required to register for an ID card, is some 12 million. I shall give way to the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey), as I have to find my calculations.

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...have. There are 12 million people under 16, and if we subtract one from t'other, that leaves an adult population of 47.2 million people who are required under the terms of this measure to have an identity card if they wish to apply for a passport. The hon. Member for Vauxhall took us into another debate on whether or not there is compulsion. Unfortunately, she has left the Committee, but...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: That is very helpful. I am sorry if the Minister has already provided the answers to the questions that I am about to ask, but we need to have those answers on the record. As I was saying at the end of the last sitting, the individual cost of the ID cards will depend critically on how many cards are issued. It would be helpful if the Minister intervened to let us know whether that figure is...

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

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...us an answer in the next sitting, about the costs that I read out—£415 million, £85 million and £50 million, a total of £5.5 billion over 10 years? If 55 million British people apply for the ID cards, that is £100, not £85, each. I might be wrong, so I shall be grateful if the Minister can confirm whether I am correct.  

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

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...in set-up costs for the first three years from November 2003; £415 million is the estimated annual cost of the biometric passport from 2008-09; £85   million is the estimated annual cost of operating ID cards on top of possible costs; £50 million is the estimated annual cost of providing verification services; and £85 is the current best estimate for paying for all...

Economic Affairs (1 Dec 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...of Bills—32 in all: thank goodness most of them will not see the light of day before the next general election. I cannot sum up the Queen's Speech any better than Anatole Kaletsky, who said that it is a rag-bag of unfortunate measures. It is one of the most illiberal Queen's Speeches for a long time. On identity cards, I walked past eight policemen this morning. That is the most I...