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Bills Presented — Business Rate Supplements Bill: Home Affairs and Justice (4 Dec 2008) has video

David Davis: ...helpful intervention for her. There have been some stories in the press and on the radio this morning that the Government intend to insist on checks within country, requiring people to carry these ID cards in country so that the police can check them. Will she please scotch those rumours right now?

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (31 Mar 2008)

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to Table 4 in the Identity Cards Scheme Cost report published in November 2007, (1) if she will provide a break down, by main budget heading of the costs which make up the £2,964 million in spending common to passports and ID cards; (2) if she will provide a breakdown by main budget heading of the costs which make up...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Justice (7 Nov 2007) has video

David Davis: That is right. The right hon. Gentleman also knows that I rather approve of him, although I should tell him that when dealing with his successors as Home Secretary, who passed in rather rapid succession, I always thought of him as the one that got away. [ Interruption. ] He agrees. The Government have approached the Queen's Speech in each of the past 10 years under the misguided assumption...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Justice (7 Nov 2007) has video

David Davis: ...the full use of the law and the powers that we have already. The previous Home Secretary understood those arguments and came up with another scenario, in the earlier stage of the discussion. He said, "Okay, we can cope with one Heathrow reasonably easily, but what if we had five all at once? We'd be overwhelmed." That is the circumstance under which, we argue, the Government should invoke...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (19 Feb 2007)

David Davis: En passant, I notice that not a single Labour Member has stood to support the Minister, despite his comments about the support for his case. In December, the Home Secretary announced that the ID card system was to be based on the Department for Work and Pensions customer information system database. That is the national insurance number system. There are in existence 76 million supposedly...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (19 Feb 2007)

David Davis: ...status. That is part of the reason why, under that so-called tried and tested system, we wrongly spent £4.5 million in tax credits to immigrants in one year alone. Rather than protect against identity fraud, is not there a real risk that the ID card will legitimise existing identity fraud?

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

David Davis: I shall in a moment. Let us consider what the Government are doing now. They are still refusing to put a limit on immigration. We would apply such a limit. They are still putting their faith in e-borders, which will not be properly in place for eight years—we are supposed to deal with immigration without e-borders for eight years—and in the hopeless white elephant of ID cards,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Theft (17 Jul 2006)

David Davis: As we are talking about identity theft, I should stress that I am the other David Davis —[ Laughter. ] In justifying ID cards, the Government claim that identity fraud costs the clearing banks in the UK Payments Association £504.8 million. The banks say that it costs them less than £37 million. Who is right?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Theft (17 Jul 2006)

David Davis: I note that I did not get an answer. The Home Office has been accused of exaggerating what ID cards would save by the banks, the insurance companies and even by HM Revenue and Customs, part of their own Government. At best, the project will save little and cost a fortune, but the problem is even worse than that. ID cards are likely to make the problem of identity theft worse, not better—

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Theft (17 Jul 2006)

David Davis: Microsoft's National Technology Office says that ID cards could "trigger massive identity fraud", and one of the FBI's leading identity fraud consultants said that the ID card could be replicated perfectly by criminals within six months —[ Interruption. ] I notice that Labour Back Benchers seem to think that they are more expert than Microsoft and the FBI. In order for the House to be...

Identity Cards Bill (29 Mar 2006)

David Davis: ...), who is in his place. The officers' mess had given the sergeants' mess a barrel of beer and the commanding officer asked the sergeant-major what they made of it and whether they liked it. He said, "It was just right, sir." The CO said, "Just right?" He said, "Yes, sir. If it had been any worse we couldn't have drunk it, and if it had been any better, you wouldn't have given it to us."...

Identity Cards Bill (29 Mar 2006)

David Davis: I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in one moment. The Government have not met any of the tests that we set at the beginning of the ID cards process: on cost, there is a massive £19 billion bill; on effectiveness, it will fail to stop terrorism, immigration fraud, crime, fraud and ID theft; on privacy, all our fears have been confirmed.

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)

David Davis: ...proposal by the Government and they are going to get a table d'hôte response from me. The latest argument is the ludicrous—I use that word advisedly—assertion by the Home Secretary that having an ID card will limit the intrusions of the state upon the person. That is an extraordinary argument. If that were not daft enough, the Home Secretary tells us that citizens will...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)

David Davis: I want to come to a close on this. If an ID card were really valuable to the citizen, as the Home Secretary claims, presumably ordinary citizens would want them; everybody would want them if they were as valuable as the Home Secretary claims. So why are the Government not willing to leave citizens to make decisions for themselves? If cards are going to be popular, if they are going to make...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)

David Davis: No. The Government believe that unless they force a majority of the population to have an ID card by covert compulsion, they will never win the vote to make it compulsory in the final analysis. They know that if the card is not compulsory, it will not just be ineffective against terrorism, fraud, illegal immigration and crime; it will be completely useless. Listening to the Home Secretary go...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)

David Davis: I will in a moment, as I have referred to the hon. Lady. I did not know that Labour Members were so sensitive these days, but there we are. The words of the Labour manifesto are clear. It states that ID cards will be "rolling out on a voluntary basis as people renew their passports". The key word is "voluntary", and we shall return to it time and again in the next five or 10 minutes. The Home...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)

David Davis: The Home Secretary says that foreign travel is not compulsory. Oh, yes it is: I am afraid that people cannot be Foreign Office employees without going abroad. The idea is clearly ridiculous. Under this Bill, ID cards are clearly not voluntary; they are clearly compulsory.

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications relating to entries in Register (13 Feb 2006)

David Davis: I am afraid that I do not take responsibility for the hon. Gentleman not being able to understand something. It is as simple as this, and if he listens he may understand. There is a national identity register. It is a central database system. It has many thousands of access points around the country. It has to do so because that is the way it works. It is different from most other identity...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications relating to entries in Register (13 Feb 2006)

David Davis: ...the population is on the system already—why not make it everybody?" That will seem eminently practical and sensible, but the benefits will not have accrued, because, as Ministers know, if the ID cards system is going to do many of the things that the Government claim, it must be compulsory—carrying an ID card will probably have to be compulsory, too, but we can address that...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications relating to entries in Register (13 Feb 2006)

David Davis: ...report by the London School of Economics. [Interruption.] I expected hon. Members to groan. The Government—and, to my surprise, the Home Secretary—have been attacking the individuals who drew up that report. As a result, Howard Davies, the head of the LSE, wrote to the Government saying, "You are wrong to attack individuals who wrote the report. Sixty different people wrote it....