Results 1-15 of 15 for id cards speaker:John Reid

Written Answers — Home Department: Passports: Biometrics (20 Jun 2007)

John Reid: The estimated cost of introducing passports and ID cards over the next 10 years was published in the Identity Cards scheme costs report which was laid before Parliament on 10 May 2007. However, it was not possible to provide a separate figure for the cost of implementing biometric passports from that of the National Identity scheme as a whole, as many of the costs are applicable to both...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (14 Jun 2007)

John Reid: The circumstances under which an ID card must be surrendered are set out in section 11, subsections (3) and (4), of the Identity Cards Act 2006. In particular, someone who is in possession of an ID card without lawful authority would be required to surrender the card as soon as is practicable to do so and a person who is in possession of an ID card that had expired, been cancelled or was...

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Control Orders (Absconders) (24 May 2007)

John Reid: ...hon. Gentleman's party's support for that. Secondly, although it is not sufficient in itself, an absolutely necessary element of the fight against terrorism, fraud, crime and illegal immigration is ID cards management and biometrics. I hope that, even at this stage, the Opposition parties will come to their senses on that. Thirdly, I have refocused the whole of the Home Office on all those...

Written Answers — Home Department: Fingerprints: Pilot Schemes (28 Mar 2007)

John Reid: ...are being returned to the device in less than two minutes with an accuracy rate of approximately 97 per cent. and a hit rate of 40 per cent. (i.e. 40 per cent. of people checked are recorded on IDENT1). This high hit rate reflects the environment in which the devices are being used—proactive, intelligence led policing. A number of arrests have been made, particularly of disqualified...

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration Controls: Biometrics (1 Mar 2007)

John Reid: In line with my commitment to Parliament we have undertaken to give the estimated costs and cost-benefit analysis in our next six-monthly ID card cost report.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (23 Feb 2007)

John Reid: Design work with potential users of the identity verification service remains ongoing. As such, it is not possible to state which services and information will be available online to ID card holders through the use of a personal identification number at this time.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Criminal Records Backlog (10 Jan 2007)

John Reid: ...our public. If they spent more time doing that than they do attempting to harmonise where harmonisation is not necessary, we would all benefit in practical terms in this country and in the EU more widely. I turn to my hon. Friend's second, and most important, point. In a spirit of constructive engagement I ask Members in all parts of the House to consider that one of the most fundamental...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (7 Dec 2006)

John Reid: Specific arrangements for dealing with identity cards of deceased persons have yet to be decided. However, we intend to work closely with the General Registrar Offices to ensure that the notification of death and return of the ID card can be done in a sensitive manner, without causing undue distress to the bereaved. For example, GROs' guidance on death registration is likely to include...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

John Reid: ...Tories crime doubled. Under this Government, crime has been reduced by 35 per cent. That is the authority with which the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden makes his statements today. Incidentally, the resolution that the right hon. Gentleman expressed in robust terms today resulted in his party voting against the banning of handguns. His party is against ID cards at the same...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

John Reid: .... But—and this is important—we cannot track people in and out of the country, count those who come in and those who go out and know who is here unless we make a commitment to identity management. One cannot on the one hand say that one wants to control immigration over the next decade or two in a world that has mass movement on a scale never known before, and on the other, set...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Romania and Bulgaria (24 Oct 2006)

John Reid: ...from the new member states have filled skills gaps, including in key public services such as the NHS and social care, and have contributed to UK growth and prosperity. Studies have found no evidence they have taken jobs away from British workers or undercut wages. Employers and customers alike have welcomed their skills. Very few have brought dependants and the proportion attempting to...

Business of the House: Home Office: Reform Action Plan (19 Jul 2006)

John Reid: I hate to disappoint my hon. Friend on a number of fronts. I hope that he is pleased that we have decided to abandon an approach by diktat and to try to fill the gap, which everyone thinks is there in the protective services, by discussion, dialogue, collaboration and partnership and, where possible, by strategic mergers. I hope that that will be done, and most people would think that, on...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Neighbourhood Wardens (17 Jul 2006)

John Reid: ...and local antisocial behaviour campaigns. As ever, whether on local issues such as this or on their refusal to countenance the means necessary to combat terrorism and organised crime—on ID cards, for example, they share with the Conservative party a reluctance to back the necessary means to combat those things—the Liberal Democrats are always found wanting on the ground. They...

Royal Assent: Intelligence and Security Committee (Annual Report) (11 Jul 2006)

John Reid: ...the Committee, which is concerned with not only counter-terrorism and security, but organised crime and so on, that it is the Government's view that one of the essential elements of the fight is identity management and ID cards. I reaffirm our commitment to the introduction of those as rapidly as possible. I thought that it was as well to say that in view of several reports that have...

Business of the House: London Bombings (11 May 2006)

John Reid: ...such atrocities. I must say to him that in the five days in which I have been in the Home Office, it has occurred to me, when going through the several big issues that I have looked at, that ID cards would indeed have prevented some of the problems that we face over deportations, in this case and in other areas. However, nothing will give an absolute guarantee that we can prevent such...