Results 1-6 of 6 for id cards speaker:Alex Salmond
- Amendment of the Law (27 Apr 2009) has video
Alex Salmond: ...in the right hon. Gentleman's hat-trick of attacks, there is at least one about which I thoroughly agree with him—the substantial savings to be made by coming to terms with reality on the Trident programme, ID cards and other prestige projects that, patently and obviously, this Government and this country can no longer afford.
- Amendment of the Law (27 Apr 2009) has video
Alex Salmond: ...me, I will not; I have only three minutes left. We are talking about serious money. I have with me an estimate from Public Finance magazine of 23 March 2007 of the total new system costs of Trident, which were between £60 billion and £86 billion, with total potential costs over the lifetime of Trident of £65 billion to £90 billion. Serious money and resources are...
- Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Identity Cards (26 Feb 2009)
Rt Hon Alex Salmond: The Scottish Government remains opposed to the UK Government's ID card scheme. The Scottish Parliament debated this issue on 19 November 2008, and we indicated our opinion by voting for the UK Government to cancel its ID card scheme. The result was: "For 69, Against 0, Abstentions 38."—[Official Report, 19 November 2008; c 12544.] The costs are currently estimated as more than £5...
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 — Issue etc. of ID Cards (18 Oct 2005)
Alex Salmond: ...been the case in the past year. However, the House is being asked to vote for a pig in a poke and accept something that cannot possibly be quantified. The three issues that the right hon. Gentleman identified make it impossible to give any valid estimate of the costs of the ID card scheme. In an intervention from elsewhere on the Labour Benches, we were told—I paraphrase—that...
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (20 Dec 2004)
Mr Alex Salmond: A wise choice. What the right hon. Gentleman has said so far about considering ID cards sounds more like an argument for an abstention than an argument for backing them. Can he tell us about the shadow Cabinet battle, and the suggestion in scurrilous elements of the press such as The Daily Telegraph that it was decided by not wanting to be outflanked by the Prime Minister on the security...
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (20 Dec 2004)
Mr Alex Salmond: The Home Secretary mistook my point. I was trying to show the emptiness of the suggestion by the First Minister of Scotland that somehow ID cards would not be compulsory because they were not being applied to Executive or devolved services. Does the Home Secretary, who is a much more sensible person, agree that, if a card is necessary, for example, to access one's pension, it means it is...