Results 1-20 of 38 for id cards speaker:Joan Ryan

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (19 Jun 2007)

Joan Ryan: holding answer 4 June 2007 Between the financial years 2003-04 and 2005-06, £41.1 million was spent by the Identity Cards Programme in total. Of this expenditure, £31.6 million was spent on consulting and contracting services and £180,000 was spent on polling and opinion research. A further £180,000 was spent on specific IT software packages, although this figure excludes...

EU Migrants (Peterborough and Cambridgeshire) (13 Jun 2007)

Joan Ryan: ...spent and spent where there is need. However, I congratulate the project and the city council on securing the funding and making that provision. We have implemented a comprehensive regime that provides for the effective management of migration from the EU in terms of access to the labour market and benefits. Illegal working has been mentioned and I hope that the hon. Gentlemen who have...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Identity Cards (10 May 2007)

Joan Ryan: The second ID cards scheme costs report is being laid before Parliament today. It sets out an estimate of the public expenditure likely to be incurred on the ID cards scheme over the next 10 years, in accordance with section 37 of the Identity Cards Act 2006. It reports on developments over the past six months, since the first costs report was published on 9 October 2006.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (30 Apr 2007)

Joan Ryan: The introduction of ID cards in Ireland is, as the hon. Gentleman knows, a matter for the Irish Government.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (25 Apr 2007)

Joan Ryan: My Department has and will continue to maintain close contact with HM Treasury in relation to the estimates of expenditure on the National Identity Scheme. Initial cost estimates for a card scheme were published in July 2002 in the consultation paper "Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud" (CM5557) Revised cost estimates have been published from time-to-time, for example, when the Identity...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (19 Apr 2007)

Joan Ryan: A formal notice will be issued under section 31 of the Identity Cards Act to inform a person of a decision to impose a civil financial penalty for failure to comply with a specific requirement, such as a failure to notify a change of circumstances (under section 10) or to surrender an ID card when required (under section 11). The notice will set out the reasons for deciding to impose the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Seafarers (28 Mar 2007)

Joan Ryan: The United Kingdom is a party to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention of 1958 (ILO 108). Seafarer Identity Documents (SIDs) issued under this Convention have been issued to British seafarers for many years. ILO SIDs held by nationals of other party states are accepted by the United Kingdom Immigration Service for shore leave and transit...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Ryan: We will start issuing biometric immigration documents from 2008 and identity cards to British citizens from 2009. It is the Government's policy that ID cards should eventually be compulsory for everyone resident in the United Kingdom who is aged 16 or over. Under the Identity Cards Act 2006 registration on the National Identity Register and the issue of ID cards will be linked to applications...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Ryan: We will start issuing biometric immigration documents from 2008 and identity cards to British citizens from 2009. It is the Government's policy that ID cards should eventually be compulsory for everyone resident in the United Kingdom who is aged 16 or over. Under the Identity Cards Act 2006 registration on the National Identity Register and the issued ID cards will be linked to applications...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards: Fees and Charges (15 Mar 2007)

Joan Ryan: My right hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Clarke) announced on 13 October 2005: "It will be affordable to set a charge of £30 at current prices for a standalone ID card which is valid for 10 years. This will be affordable within current Home Office spending plans."

Written Answers — Home Department: Passports (19 Feb 2007)

Joan Ryan: ...to introduce chips holding fingerprint details into passports, in line with new standards for passports issued by EU member states. Applicants for passport renewal will then need to attend an Identity and Passport Service interview office in order to record their fingerprints, regardless of whether they wish to be issued with an ID card in addition to the passport.

Written Answers — Home Department: Passports: Applications (16 Feb 2007)

Joan Ryan: ...to introduce chips holding fingerprint details into passports, in line with new standards for passports issued by EU member states. Applicants for passport renewal will then need to attend an Identity and Passport Service interview office in order to record their fingerprints, regardless of whether they wish to be issued with an ID card in addition to the passport.

Orders of the Day: UK Borders Bill (5 Feb 2007)

Joan Ryan: I can indeed give that assurance, and I can say to my right hon. Friend that we will provide even greater powers for the regulator. We, too, think that that is very important. My right hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Denham), made some telling points, many of which I am sure will be discussed in Committee. We agree very much with him that employers who are abusive, and...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (8 Jan 2007)

Joan Ryan: holding answer 19 December 2006 The Home Office reported to Parliament about the likely future costs of the ID cards scheme on 9 October. The cost of issuing passports and ID cards, including set-up costs, is estimated to be £5.4 billion in the 10 years from October 2006. Further cost estimates will be submitted to Parliament at least every six months, as required by section 37 of the...

Written Answers — Home Department: IT Projects (8 Jan 2007)

Joan Ryan: Please see the following table for a full answer to this question. Identity cards have not been included in this table because the estimate of likely costs over the next 10 years of introducing ID cards was set out in the costs report laid before Parliament on 9 October 2006, which included the costs of issuing passports and identity cards. The intention is to start issuing identity cards to...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (5 Jan 2007)

Joan Ryan: holding answer 19 December 2006 The Home Office reported to Parliament about the likely future costs of the ID cards scheme on 9 October. The cost of issuing passports and ID cards, including set-up costs, is estimated to be £5.4 billion in the 10 years from October 2006. Further cost estimates will be submitted to Parliament at least every six months, as required by section 37 of the...

Written Answers — Home Department: IT Projects (5 Jan 2007)

Joan Ryan: Please see the following table for a full answer to this question. Identity cards has not been included in this table because the estimate of likely costs over the next 10 years of introducing ID cards was set out in the costs report laid before Parliament on 9 October 2006 which included the costs of issuing passports and identity cards. It is intended to start issuing identity cards to...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards Act (12 Dec 2006)

Joan Ryan: The detailed procedures for helping to ensure that people entered on the register keep their entries up to date or notify lost, stolen or damaged cards have yet to be determined. However, it is certain that no-one will be prosecuted for failing to do so, although they may be liable for a civil financial penalty under sections 10 and 11 of the Act. A code of practice on civil penalties will be...

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

Joan Ryan: Fines relating to the criminal offences set out in sections 25 to 30 of the Identity Cards Act may be imposed by a criminal court in the normal way. With the exception of the offence of providing false information when applying to be entered on the National Identity Register, the criminal sanctions in the Act are not targeted at people registered on the scheme. The Act provides for civil...

Written Answers — Home Department: National Identity Scheme Commissioner (27 Nov 2006)

Joan Ryan: The process will be governed by the code of practice issued by the Commissioner for Public Appointments, which requires appointments to be made on merit through scrutiny of candidates by a panel including membership independent of the department making the appointment. The appointment will be made before the first ID card as defined by the Identity Cards Act 2006 issued.