Results 1-20 of 26 for id cards speaker:Edward Garnier

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (29 Mar 2006)

Edward Garnier: ...we endured, failed completely to understand the difference between the requirement for a biometric passport, so that the biometrics can be read by a passport officer at the port of entry, and an ID card, which provides the gateway into the national identity register?

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (21 Mar 2006)

Edward Garnier: ...hon. Gentleman has accepted that my quotation was accurate. If he reads the whole of the passage that I referred to, it is quite clear that the voluntary roll-out refers to the introduction of the ID card scheme. Nobody in their right mind could possibly argue the case that he is arguing; he really ought to apply his mind to the whole of the phrase used.

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (21 Mar 2006)

Edward Garnier: ...thing and meaning another. On the last occasion when we debated the matter in the House, there was a rather unfortunate intervention from the hon. Member for South Swindon (Anne Snelgrove), who laid claim to having written the relevant passage of the Labour party manifesto. She was rather proud of it at the time, but perhaps she did not realise what she was doing. The Home Secretary may...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (21 Mar 2006)

Edward Garnier: ...and 22H, which Ministers may or may not have read, it is important to point out that when we last debated this the Home Secretary was chuntering to the effect that the majority of Cross Benchers did not support the majority of 36 in favour of those amendments. Well, I have news for him. That majority contained within it a majority of Cross Benchers, so he has shot his own fox, if I may use...

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

Edward Garnier: It is but one example, and we have had several since 1997. On 13 February, the Government agreed that compulsory registration on the national identity register and the identity card scheme for the 20 per cent. of the population who do not have passports should require new legislation. Did they think that the remaining 80 per cent. of the population would not notice that attempt at compulsion...

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

Edward Garnier: ...of Government amendment (a). Despite the guillotine, this short debate is about a lot more than that. The amendments are not, as the Home Secretary says, technical. One would have to be deaf or stupid to accede to the arguments advanced by him tonight. We all know the Home Secretary is neither deaf nor stupid, but for the life of us we cannot understand what the Government are attempting...

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

Edward Garnier: ...extract from the Government's words any coherent intellectual basis for the case that they are now making is extremely difficult. The Government have changed their reasons for supporting not only identity cards, but the national identity register, and they change their position on what they mean by "voluntary" and what they think they mean by "compulsory" day by day. As the Home Secretary...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Edward Garnier: If I have not reset the Minister's mind, I sincerely hope that the hon. Lady has done so, but I am not at all confident that either of us will have succeeded. I support Lords amendment No. 70 and want to address amendment (a) in lieu, which the Government intend to support, tabled by the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras. The hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) made the...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Edward Garnier: There is a growing air of scepticism in the Chamber, and the longer the Minister spoke, the more the scepticism became apparent. He said that there would not be a special pot of money to prevent Home Office funds for the police and other necessary forms of security from being spent. However, one is of course always reminded of the Prime Minister's remarks in 1995 when he criticised the then...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Edward Garnier: ...Home Office and the public at large that the Home Office had fallen down on its 2004–05 resource accounts. Let me pick out one or two paragraphs of the report so that hon. Members can get an idea of the context of our debate. The report also addresses the concern expressed by the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mr. Todd) about the absence of proper accounting assumptions in...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 30 - Providing false information (19 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: I beg to move amendment No. 104, in clause 30, page 26, line 25, leave out from ‘false’ to end of line 26. We can see from the clause that a person is guilty of an offence if he provides information that he knows or believes to be false, or if he is reckless as to whether it is false, “(a)for the purpose of securing the making or modification of an entry in the Register;...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 24 - Appointment of National Identity Scheme Commissioner (19 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: We are concerned with the commissioner’s ability to oversee the work of the Secretary of State, the administration of the ID register and the identity card scheme. The amendments deal with clause 24(3), which begins: “The matters to be kept under review by the Commissioner do not include”, after which various exceptions are listed. Why are those exceptions not included?...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 15 - Power to make public services conditional on identity checks (14 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: ...to the amendments. To use the expression of the hon. Member for Broxtowe, we seek some copper-bottomed assurances from the Government about the compulsory nature—or absence of it—of the identity card scheme. Amendment No. 57 would replace subsection (3), which reads: “Nothing in this section authorises the making of regulations the effect of which would be to require an...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 9 - Renewal of ID cards for those compulsorily registered (12 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: I am glad that the hon. Gentleman did not find it necessary to move the amendment. To some extent, we discussed the penalties in an earlier debate, but it is important that we should briefly discuss whether clause 9 should be part of the Bill. I place in parentheses my usual complaint about the enabling nature of the Bill, which produces all these unseen   powers. That is worth saying on...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (12 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: ...me finish with this point. The LSE claims: ''As people age, their biometrics change and become less reliable. As a consequence, these people are more likely to face problems with the use of the identity card system and may require more frequent updates of their biometric information stored on the system. Approximately 17 per cent. of the population are aged over 65 and will fall into this...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (12 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: ...was exactly on point when he raised the issue in the amendments. The Government had a briefing for Members of Parliament. For those who were not able to attend, there was a supply of paper slides. On page 21, there is a section called ''Costs—current best estimates''. One box says: ''£93—current best estimate for the unit cost of the combined biometric passport and...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 - Power of Secretary of State to require registration (12 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: I often find the hon. Gentleman's interventions a little difficult to follow, fascinating though they doubtless are. I have absolutely no idea what percentage of the vote the Labour party will gain in the next election in 2009 or 2010. However, I assure the hon. Gentleman that dissatisfaction with the identity card system gets greater as the practical consequences emerge. When the ID card...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 - Applications relating to entries in Register (12 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: ...the designated documents are. With regard to the general argument about access and function creep, why do they not come clean at the beginning of our deliberations on the Bill and say, ''Right, the ID card system and register need to compulsory. Let's get on with it?'' They should just tell us that this is compulsory, rather than do that by a side wind and say, ''It is not really...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 3 - Information recorded in Register (7 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: We can divide the amendments into four categories. Amendments Nos. 22 and 23 are to do with a discussion about the recording of information that is either, as the Bill would have it, “consistent with the statutory purposes”, or as the amendment suggests “necessary for the statutory purposes”. Amendments Nos. 25, 24 and 26 are in a separate category, which I shall...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 3 - Information recorded in Register (7 Jul 2005)

Edward Garnier: ...of the Register” and “information of a technical nature for use in connection with the administration of arrangements made for purposes connected with the issue or cancellation of ID cards”. The provisions describe two of the four categories of information—indeed, the only information—that may be recorded in the register. What does that mean, and why?