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Written Answers — Education and Skills: Information Sharing (9 May 2006)

Beverley Hughes: ...child's 18th birthday. To help ensure that the transition from youth to adult services is managed smoothly, it may also be desirable to make provision to retain information on the index on an individual basis for young adults with multiple needs, (for example care leavers and young people with disabilities), beyond their 18th birthday, with their consent. In line with the Data Protection...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (15 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: There are very many factors which affect the level of security threats and it would not be possible to correlate the level of threat in different countries with their use of ID cards. Terrorists use false and multiple identities to help undertake and finance their activities in the UK and abroad. The development of unique identifiers linked to the National Identity Register will help to...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (10 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: The security and integrity of the database are integral to maintaining trust in the Identity Cards scheme. The specifications and design of the database and its security features have not yet been established but will take into account security advice from the earliest stages and the design process will include threat and vulnerability assessments. Threats which will be assessed will include...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (8 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: There is no national proof of age card and therefore no figures are held centrally for the number of cards issued by the various existing card schemes. The Government's plans for a national identity cards scheme would provide a nationally accepted, useful and secure way of proving and determining age when young people wish to purchase age restricted products such as alcohol. However, this is...

Public Bill Committee: Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill: New Clause 16 - Information about passengers (27 Jan 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...about the termination of their waiver scheme, in so far as there is an issue, is not about the principle but about the timescale in which it is being imposed. Although we shall include a biometric identifier in all new passports—we are piloting it now—we do not envisage being able to do that universally until mid-2005, whereas the date for the start of the cessation of the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Theft (26 Jan 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: Following the conclusion of the consultation on Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud in July 2003, the Home Office is taking work forward on the introduction of identity cards, including examining the role identity cards could have in countering identity theft and fraud. In addition to this work, the Passport Service is piloting a system to conduct more background checks on passport...

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Ms Beverley Hughes: We have had an excellent debate and I am grateful to the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mr. Thomas) and all Members who have contributed. Although it is clear that there is a wide range of views, right across the party, it is right that that is so, if the Government proceed on these lines. I appreciate the difficulty caused for Members by the fact that there is no specific proposal on the...

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Ms Beverley Hughes: I am personally convinced that ID cards are indispensable in addressing some of the issues touched on by Members, some of whom have been sceptical about the contribution that ID cards can make. They are not a panacea, as my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (David Winnick) said, but they are vital to progress on some of the serious issues faced by the UK and every country in the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Asylum Seekers (16 Jun 2003)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...detention estate much more effectively so that we can bring people to the point of removal and then get them out of the country. We are processing people more quickly, we are issuing them all with ID cards, and we require them to report regularly. We are therefore keeping in contact with people. Through those measures, we are able to increase, as I have said, the number of people who are...