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Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 43 — General Interpretation (18 Oct 2005)

Martin Salter: This is not the first time that I have debated this issue in this place. During earlier exchanges, we heard a lot of fuss about the compulsory nature of this enabling Bill, which will become evident further down the road. I sat on the Standing Committee that examined almost exactly the same Bill in the last Parliament. At no point have the Government ever denied their intention to move...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 43 — General Interpretation (18 Oct 2005)

Martin Salter: I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker, for chiding the Liberal Democrats a little. We voluntarily hand over a huge amount of information in our ordinary lives—in supermarkets, in chemists, through our mobile phone calls, and through the CCTV cameras that many Members who oppose ID cards are happy to campaign for in their constituencies. An awful lot of people, most of them unelected, know...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 43 — General Interpretation (18 Oct 2005)

Martin Salter: The UK is introducing biometric passports to help fight passport fraud and forgery, to help the public and the UK to fight identity fraud, to ensure that the British passport remains one of the most secure and respected in the world, to facilitate more robust border control, to fulfil international standards that the International Civil Aviation Organisation has set and to ensure that British...

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

Martin Salter: May I press the Home Secretary a little further on the issue of capping the charge? One of the reasons why public support for the principle of identity cards appears to have slipped is that so much misinformation has been put into the public domain over the likely costs. Will my right hon. Friend give us an assurance that the public will not be expected to pay more than £28 or £30...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 - Applications relating to entries in Register (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Martin Salter: Will the hon. Gentleman reflect on the statement he has just made? The motivation for supporting an ID cards Bill cannot be purely to engage in the fight against terrorism. Does he not accept that Committee members have different reasons for supporting or opposing the Bill. The fight against terrorism is important to me, but the ability of any Government to know exactly who is in the country,...

Identity Cards (11 Nov 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: ...of my strong support, and that of my constituents, for his proposals. Can he tell the House what comments he has received so far from the police in relation to the concept of the introduction of ID cards?

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: ...wise words, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall try to be as brief as possible. I speak as an instinctive libertarian—a child of the '60s—but as someone who has reached the conclusion that ID cards are not only inevitable but fundamentally desirable. In the Home Secretary's introduction to the White Paper, which I am sure hon. Members have read carefully, he says: "There are strongly...

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: Nineteen eighty-six was a long time ago. I am certainly aware that proof of residence was required. Of course, there was a much more serious point, about which I am sure that my hon. Friend would agree, which was that it was particularly demeaning for unemployed people to have to turn up in front of a lot of other people with their UB40s to get a free swim. The advantage of a card system was...

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: No; I will make headway if I can. Five benefits would immediately flow from the proper introduction of ID cards. There has been much talk about the fact that our asylum and immigration system and our borders are not as secure as one would like; nor is the system as valid as one would want. My area is not known for intensive farming, but only the other week my local paper reported that a...

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: ...to touch on a far more friendly matter, and that is convenience. I am not a great man for carrying a huge amount of plastic, but I have just emptied the contents of my wallet and I see 16 different cards. First and most important is my Labour party membership card, followed by my trade union cards. Also, even in Liberal Democrat-controlled authorities one needs an ID card to get into the...

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: I can envisage a time in my life when it will be convenient to amalgamate some of the information that we now carry on a lot of separate cards. I do not envisage that, in my lifetime, the Caravan Club, the National Trust or Johnson's dry-cleaning will appear on a national ID card. I understand some of the objections to the introduction of an ID card scheme on the grounds of cost. However, we...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Illegal Immigration (8 Jul 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: ...hon. Friends are fully aware that one of the major pull factors that makes this country—and especially the south of England—a target for illegal immigration is the lack of an effective ID card system? That is something about which the Conservatives appear to be ambivalent. I contend that many of my hon. Friends would welcome a compulsory system and cannot wait to see it implemented.