Results 1-20 of 82 for id cards speaker:Tony McNulty

Delegated Legislation: Government's Crime Record (7 Feb 2007)

Tony McNulty: ...people and ASBOs are not raining down like confetti. There have been 10,000 in the best part of three years. There has been an enormous amount of work up and down the country—involving individual support orders, acceptable behaviour contracts and a whole array of other interventions—to do everything but serve ASBOs. So his was nice, but profoundly empty, rhetoric. Let us look...

[Mr. Greg Pope in the Chair] — Terrorism (Detention and Human Rights) (7 Dec 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...(Patrick Mercer) in a parliamentary forum was on 7 July 2005. I think there is an apocryphal story about it, but it is also in my memory. I do not think that we were discussing terrorism and ID cards in connection with what was then the Identity Cards Bill, but we were discussing ID cards. I commend the hon. Gentleman on his sources, because very soon after I received a bit of paper, he...

Identity Card Scheme (10 May 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...for East Dunbartonshire(Jo Swinson) has been in the House for only a year and her reputation is strong and growing, but, with the best will in the world, I have never listened to such cliché-ridden tosh since the last time I heard a Liberal speak on ID cards. That is a shame because there are serious and substantive matters of practicality rather than principle that we now need to...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum/Immigration (8 May 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...EU counterparts in the margins of these meetings and in visits they have made to the UK at which discussion of illegal immigration has played a prominent part. More particularly during the UK Presidency in the second half of 2005, he ensured that specific EU attention was given to illegal immigration including organised immigration crime. An EU action plan on human trafficking was agreed...

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration and Nationality Directorate (18 Apr 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...which will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate. These include: Developing plans for biometrics, including biometric visas, biometric residence permits, passports and ID cards to improve security at and within our borders. In parallel with the introduction of biometric visas overseas, biometrics will be added to travel documents issued for...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (27 Feb 2006)

Tony McNulty: Other Government Departments do not produce estimates of the costs of integrating Home Office IT systems with the identity card scheme or of the ongoing operation of the scheme itself. Estimates made by Government Departments of the costs of integrating the Identity Cards Scheme into their own IT systems is part of the ongoing development of the business case which continues to show that the...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 — Power of the Secretary of State to require registration (13 Feb 2006)

Tony McNulty: I repeat the assurances that we have already given on several occasions. The stand-alone ID card will cost about £30 and the joint package with the biometric passport will cost about £93. My hon. Friend will know, too, that specific secondary legislation will remain in the Bill relating to the fees regime and any concessionary regime, which the House will have an opportunity to...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 — Power of the Secretary of State to require registration (13 Feb 2006)

Tony McNulty: First, we are not making the cards themselves compulsory—it is the registration that will be compulsory. Secondly, we are not developing ID cards in lieu of passports, as a separate travel document. We think that the benefits of ID cards go far beyond simply travel and that, in the terms that we have outlined, £30 for a 10-year document is not terribly unreasonable.

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 — Power of the Secretary of State to require registration (13 Feb 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...—which I thoroughly enjoyed—that all paper licences, which are the most inappropriate and insecure form of such an important document, would need to be replaced by small plastic photocard licences. I can say without fear of contradiction that that is entirely separate from—indeed, nothing to do with—what we want to do in the ID cards programme. When we implement the...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 — Power of the Secretary of State to require registration (13 Feb 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...licences and the issue of more secure and substantial licences. We have made it clear that we shall look only at passports and immigration documents in the implementation of the first phase of ID cards. We have never excluded from subsequent consideration documents such as driving licences, but the hon. Gentleman's point relates neither to the story to which my hon. Friend referred nor to...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 — Power of the Secretary of State to require registration (13 Feb 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...The point that he makes within the confines of the debate and these Lords amendments is entirely right: none of them goes to the substance or principle of voluntary, compulsory or any other form of ID card scheme. The debate is only on the narrow ground of whether there should be a super-affirmative procedure in both Houses or primary legislation. I think that everyone at both ends of this...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 — Power of the Secretary of State to require registration (13 Feb 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...our next debate, but I shall resist that temptation before you, Mr. Speaker, exhort me to shut up, move on and stay with the specifics. The hon. Gentleman, who was on the Standing Committee considering the Bill, is aware of two points. First, as we shall see when we come to the next debate, it is inconceivable that people who have concerns about cost-effectiveness should say to the House...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum and Immigration (21 Nov 2005)

Tony McNulty: ...currently in the UK is not available. This could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Some applicants may leave the United Kingdom without informing the Immigration Service. E-borders and ID cards will enable us to monitor this more precisely in the future.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (21 Nov 2005)

Tony McNulty: The ID cards programme has undergone two OGC Gateway Zero Reviews and one Gateway One Review. The Government have no plans for publishing Gateway Reviews. Publishing the traffic light status awarded by these reviews or their recommendations would be likely to prejudice both the ability of the Office of Government Commerce to examine the effectiveness, efficiency and economy with which other...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (21 Nov 2005)

Tony McNulty: The current best estimate for the total average annual running costs for issuing biometric passports and ID cards to UK nationals, and running a verification service is £584 million at 2005–06 prices. The current best estimate of the unit cost of an adult passport/ID card package for UK Citizens valid for 10 years is £93 at 2005–06 prices. Within our current financial...

Written Answers — Home Department: National Identity Register (21 Nov 2005)

Tony McNulty: We expect most of the checks on the register to be done with the consent of the individual. Under Clause 14 of the Bill, regulations may be made prescribing how the individual's authority for the provision of information is to be given. This clause limits the information that may be provided to accredited organisations as part of a verification check. This includes information within...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (9 Nov 2005)

Tony McNulty: The current best estimate for the unit cost of an adult passport/ID card package for UK citizens valid for 10 years is £93. The actual amount charged to a person will depend on future policy decisions on charging within the scope allowed by the Identity Cards Bill.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (8 Nov 2005)

Tony McNulty: The current best estimate for the total average annual running costs for issuing passports and ID cards to UK nationals is £584 million. The Home Department is not breaking this cost down further because this information is commercially sensitive and discussion of estimated costs may prejudice the procurement process by limiting the Department's ability to secure value for money from the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (8 Nov 2005)

Tony McNulty: The current best estimate for the total average running costs for issuing passports and ID cards to UK nationals is £584 million per annum. The Home Office is not breaking this cost down further, nor publishing details of set-up costs, because this information is commercially sensitive and discussion of more detailed estimated costs may prejudice the procurement process by limiting the...

Public Bill Committee: Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill: Clause 25 - Proof of right of abode (25 Oct 2005)

Tony McNulty: Yes, in the terms that I have just laid out. It may be that someone has the right of access with a non-UK passport and needs the certification of entitlement. There are people with UK passports who, as I have suggested, are subjects rather than full citizens and will have the right of abode but not all the other rights afforded under citizenship. The clause is just about tidying these things...