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Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

Martin Linton: For the illumination of the House, will the hon. Gentleman add the estimated industry figure for the amount that the ID card would save in terms of ID fraud?

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

Martin Linton: I know that there are 54 places on the computer where the information can be put, but all the information other than name, date of birth, place of birth, nationality and address is identity information from other Government Departments—the national insurance number, the national health service number and so on. They are simply cross-references with other Departments. The only personal...

Public Bill Committee: Political Parties and Elections Bill: New Clause 1 (18 Nov 2008)

Martin Linton: Most European countries do not have electoral registers or annual canvasses for the simple reason that they have ID cards. There is no reason to draw up a separate register of voters every year because they already have a register of the population. One point that the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest have not made is that Northern Ireland has electoral ID cards,...

Public Bill Committee: Political Parties and Elections Bill: New Clause 1 (18 Nov 2008)

Martin Linton: For clarity, I was not suggesting that progress on the road towards individual registration should be held up on account of the fact that Parliament may in future decide to adopt ID cards. I was merely saying that the hon. Gentleman’s international comparisons are beside the point. He is comparing us with countries that do not need to have electoral registers or annual canvasses.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Fraud (9 Jun 2008) has video

Martin Linton: Two of the worst 10 postcodes for ID fraud in the country are in my constituency, so I welcome the Minister's estimate that the minimum savings will be £310 million, and I would value her confirmation that the maximum savings would be £575 million. In view of that, will she urge Opposition members of the all-party group on identity fraud to stop opposing ID cards, since they would...

Opposition Day — [6th allotted day]: National Insurance Numbers and Illegal Immigrants (16 Jan 2008) has video

Martin Linton: ...illegal workers while opposing the one measure that will, as he must know, do the most to enable the Government to make it impossible for illegal workers to come here, namely the introduction of identity cards for foreign nationals. At Prime Minister's questions last week, the leader of the Conservative party was asked three times whether he supported ID cards for foreign nationals—a...

Opposition Day — [6th allotted day]: National Insurance Numbers and Illegal Immigrants (16 Jan 2008)

Martin Linton: ...not returned from a lunch but a constituency engagement, I want to point out to the hon. Gentleman that the best way to ensure the integrity of national insurance for foreign workers would be an ID card system. He knows that.

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

Martin Linton: ...we need to make our points in the short time that is available. Lord Armstrong of Ilminster is moving towards that sort of voluntary scheme, and I could happily live with that. Even Lord Phillips said that his amendment "would have meant that the citizen had an option—effectively, for five years—on whether he or she wished to have an ID card."—[ Official Report, House of...

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

Martin Linton: With respect, it is other hon. Members who have failed to understand the basic point that the information is the same, and it is the registers that are different. Indeed, the No to ID website requests people's forename, last name, house number, road, town, postcode and e-mail address. Even the organisation campaigning against ID cards requests very similar information from the people who log...

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

Martin Linton: I am sorry, but this is a one-hour debate. I consider myself lucky to have caught your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I want to make my points. The argument put by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary that the passport is not really compulsory has been widely mocked by people on the other side of the argument, but they must address the argument that if passports are compulsory, they are...

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

Martin Linton: I rise to speak as an unashamed supporter of compulsion in ID cards. I was the first to suggest the idea of an entitlement card and it was always conceived not as a compulsory to carry scheme, but a compulsory to have scheme. I regret the fact that the Government have resiled from that position. However, I now hear the words "voluntary" and "compulsory" used in slightly different ways and...

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

Martin Linton: It is nice to be able to return to the subject of the cost and benefit of ID cards. I was fortunate enough to have question 1 this afternoon, as you might remember, Mr. Speaker. It was on the cost of ID cards per person. The answer from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was that the cost of a stand-alone ID card would be £30 for 10 years—£3 per person per year. It is...

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

Martin Linton: I am happy to provide my hon. Friend with the answer. Although the figures are published by the Home Office, they are taken from APACS, CIFAS, banks and all the financial institutions that have provided estimates to the Home Office, and it has reprinted them. Hon. Members may cast doubt on those, but the figures have been arrived at by the people who will make use of the ID system. The...

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

Martin Linton: That is my understanding of the Bill, and I would not support it if I thought that it was a device to give the police powers to stop people in the street and ask them for their ID cards. From the very beginning of this debate four or five years ago, it was made clear in the Government White Paper and the consultation document that the Government did not want to consult on—indeed, they...

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

Martin Linton: ...and, for people from overseas, information about their work permit. The legislation does not allow any further information to be added to the register. I believe one or two items should be added to ID cards, including organ donor information and medical information which, in an emergency, could make the difference between life and death. However, even that information, which could save...

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

Martin Linton: ...least, the subsection that the hon. Gentleman quotes is an indication that the schedule could not be changed without the approval of the House. All hon. Members must know someone who has had their card stolen and their identity stolen, perhaps by someone going through rubbish and picking out their credit card numbers. That is one of the fastest growing crimes. Quite apart from the effect...

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

Martin Linton: As my hon. Friend knows, we have only four minutes left in this debate, and I have not intervened on others. A voluntary ID register makes no more sense than voluntary bus fares or voluntary juries. The huge benefits that will come to the citizen, to the Government and to private industry with the introduction of ID cards are to a large extent dependent on it being compulsory for everyone's...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications Relating to Entries in the Register (18 Oct 2005)

Martin Linton: ...White Papers, the first of which, issued by the Home Office, distinguished between different possible schemes: a voluntary scheme; a scheme called at that stage a universal scheme, under which the card would have to be held by everybody; and a compulsory scheme, under which everyone would have to carry the card. From the start, the last option was excluded and the Government looked at...

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

Mr Martin Linton: Has the hon. Lady not reached the page in the explanatory notes that points out that the cost will be £70 for a biometric passport and another £15 for the ID card?

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

Mr Martin Linton: This week, a number of journalists—and indeed my Whip—asked me whether I support the Government proposals on ID cards. I told them that they do not need to ask me whether I support ID cards, because I was the MP who suggested that the Government should introduce them in the first place, when I was a member of the Home Affairs Committee. My idea was called "entitlement cards", and...