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

John Redwood: .... Does he agree that it was always absurd to suppose that an illegal immigrant coming into this country would somehow escape all passport checks but would suddenly be caught out by a check on an ID card? It is completely unnecessary, is it not, to demand an ID card as well as a passport? We should use the passport.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the law (22 Apr 2009)

John Redwood: ...has now become extreme. Our areas have needs too, and, as my hon. Friend rightly says, the distribution system is very unfair. I wish to draw attention to the two economies out there: the huge divide in modern Britain is between those of us who work in the public sector and those who work in the private sector. The big divide is between those who are trying to run small and medium-sized...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Cost of Living (24 Jun 2008) has video

John Redwood: ...are the Government doing with it? They have not told us how they are wasting that £500 million, but we know that they have wasted billions on computerisation, unneeded regional government in England, ID cards, too many officials and administrators and too many external consultants coming in to do the jobs that officials do not seem to be able to do so that we are paying twice for...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Cost of Living (24 Jun 2008) has video

John Redwood: Was the hon. Gentleman asleep when the Conservatives produced endless proposals for getting better value for money and having fewer administrators, fewer targets, fewer quangos, fewer ID cards and all the other claptrap that has wasted billions?

Business of the House (5 Jun 2008) has video

John Redwood: ...ever-rising taxes, charges and impositions? That would give us an opportunity to expose the wasteful and needless expenditure on things such as unelected regional government, over-manned quangos, ID cards and computer schemes, and to offer some relief to people if only the Government would manage things better.

Orders of the Day: Clause 1 — Extended meaning of "the Treaties" and "the Community Treaties" (15 Jan 2008)

John Redwood: ...so we may find ourselves financing more unsatisfactory, unnecessary, inefficient or even fraudulent programmes, which my electors are decreasingly in favour of doing. Finally, the Chief Secretary said that we must understand that we will get more trade for British companies out of enlargement and the greater prosperity of eastern European countries. Of course we will, but that is not...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: HM Revenue and Customs (28 Nov 2007) has video

John Redwood: ...was right to say that, above all, we are debating a cultural issue. It is a matter of grave concern that HMRC does not regard looking after data as its fundamental duty, and that it does not consider that the customers or taxpayers whom it serves have every right to expect the highest possible standards when it comes to protecting the very important and extensive personal data that they...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)

John Redwood: ...the bag—the manifesto clearly states "on a voluntary basis". Why does the Home Secretary not amend the Bill, so that people obtaining passports and driving licences who do not share his confidence in ID cards do not have to have one forced on them? Then, we would all be happy.

Government Regulation (4 Jul 2005)

John Redwood: My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. It is one of many examples that Members could provide, and some will, about the huge impact of such regulation and how it diverts people and money from things that are worth doing—in my hon. Friend's case, the good example of providing more teachers—to things that are not worth doing, which amounts to bossiness gone mad. The Government churn...

Government Regulation (4 Jul 2005)

John Redwood: ...within the resources available. In the education sector, we need to trust teachers rather more. Instead, a whole army of targets pours forth from Whitehall; there are endless advice notes and guidance notes making it extremely difficult for people to do the job on the ground. Local government is tied up in knots by the Government. They sometimes say that they like the idea of more devolved...

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

John Redwood: Clause 15 says that the Government can demand the production of an ID card for purposes connected with the provision of a public service. Which public services have the Government in mind, and how many abuses does the Home Secretary think are currently taking place because of false identities?

European Council (Seville) (24 Jun 2002)

Mr John Redwood: Does the Prime Minister agree with those EU Governments who say that a country has to introduce compulsory ID cards if it wishes to be successful in dealing with illegal immigration?