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

Mark Fisher: ...if the scheme were to be completely compulsory, but the Bill establishes, by the back door, a halfway house to compulsion. Why? I suspect that the real reason is that the Home Secretary is not confident. When we eventually reach the stage of introducing primary legislation to make the scheme compulsory, he wants to be able to tell the House and the public, "Sixty per cent. of people in the...

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications relating to entries in Register (13 Mar 2006)

Mark Fisher: There is a perfectly logical case for compulsory identity cards. If one believes, as the Home Secretary does, that they really will deliver something very important in the fight against terrorism, fraud or impersonation, of course we should have a universal card, and a universal card is only possible if it is compulsory. However, that is not what our manifesto says. It says that there should...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (28 Jun 2005)

Mark Fisher: On the necessity of carrying a card, will the Home Secretary clarify two points? First, he cited the Spanish experience and said that the Spanish only managed to get those people because having an ID card is a requirement to get a mobile phone in Spain. Is he saying that that would be the situation in this country and that people who want a mobile phone must have an ID card? Secondly, he told...

Public Bill Committee: Road Safety Bill: Clause 29 - Compulsory surrender of old-form licences (1 Feb 2005)

Mr Mark Fisher: Will my hon. Friend clarify two points? Is the information that the plastic licence holds precisely the same as is held on the paper licence? I was under the impression that the plastic licence did not include any points or penalties that had been incurred. On a related point, will the information on the new licence be part of the information on the Government's planned individual ID card?