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

Douglas Hogg: Indeed. The point has been made that once an identity card scheme is set up as a gateway, all the fraudsters of Europe will be devising ways to use the key into the gateway, and they will succeed. The hon. Lady is entirely right. To the extent that there are benefits, they have to be weighed in the balance of cost and disadvantage. As to cost, none of us can be sure what the cost will be,...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (20 Dec 2004)

Mr Douglas Hogg: I beg to move, To leave out from "That" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof: "this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Identity Cards Bill because it would lead to an unreasonable intrusion into the liberties and privacy of the citizen; it would not achieve benefits proportionate to the cost, as the underlying technology is likely to prove unreliable; and the...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (20 Dec 2004)

Mr Douglas Hogg: The hon. Gentleman is not really addressing the point. Spain has suffered for years from Basque terrorism and, of course, the cards did not stop the bombing in the first place. There is no doubt that identity cards would have an impact on policies to control illegal immigration, but let us remember that the real problem with illegal immigration is due to overstaying, which is caused by the...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (20 Dec 2004)

Mr Douglas Hogg: No, I am afraid that I must make some progress. A cost of £3 billion has been suggested, but I do not know whether that is right or wrong. However, I do know that almost every public sector budget ever contemplated has been seriously overrun, so I suspect that that will be the case with ID cards as well. Irrespective of whether the figure will be £3 billion, £1 billion or...