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Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment): Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [ Lords] (2 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Smith: We are already issuing ID cards for foreign nationals—

Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment): Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [ Lords] (2 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Smith: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Gentleman has had lunch, but he did not have coffee. We are already issuing ID cards for foreign nationals—35,000 since last November. The points-based system is now fully operational, so that only those with the skills that we need can come to the UK to work and study.

Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment): Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [ Lords] (2 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Smith: ...between those at the border and the police is helping to ensure the security of those who travel to and from the UK. I am clear that that is where we should be putting our energy. Such work provides the advantage of robust collaboration, but without the drawbacks of significant further structural change to policing, as advocated by some Opposition Members. We will take practical steps to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (18 May 2009) has video

Jacqui Smith: I made clear and announced to the House the costs of breaking those contracts. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is not proposing that I put commercially confidential information into the public domain—leak it, perhaps? We have been completely clear that, of the total cost of implementing ID cards, approximately 70 per cent. would need to be spent in any event, just to implement secure...

Written Answers — Home Department: Fuels: Transport (12 May 2009)

Jacqui Smith: ...the Juxtaposed locations in Northern France, as well as ports of entry around the country. Drivers and their passengers are required to present documentation in the form of either a passport, or an ID card to an immigration officer to verify their identity and this applies to everyone seeking entry to the UK without exception. Once the immigration officer is satisfied with the passenger...

Olympics: Operation Pathway (20 Apr 2009) has video

Jacqui Smith: ...about me rather than about the issue says rather more about him than it does about me. To return to the issue, I can reassure the hon. Gentleman, as I spelled out in my statement, that we have considerably tightened the process for issuing student visas, not just from Pakistan, but more widely. I have seen the visa operation myself at the high commission in Islamabad. I believe that there...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Topical Questions (23 Mar 2009) has video

Jacqui Smith: We are on track to introduce identity cards this autumn, and we have already started to issue ID cards for foreign nationals. Next month, we plan to award two contracts for the national identity scheme: one to upgrade our passport application systems, and one for the biometric database to deliver the next generation of passports and ID cards. Later this year, we will award the ID contract...

Written Answers — Home Department: Illegal Immigrants (23 Mar 2009)

Jacqui Smith: ...is part of a sweeping programme of border protection which also includes the global roll-out of fingerprint visas, watch-list checks for all travellers before they arrive or depart from the UK and ID cards for foreign nationals.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards: Fees and Charges (9 Feb 2009)

Jacqui Smith: The fees and charges strategy for the next 10 years is still being developed and so the fee revenue for identity cards and biometric passports for each of the next 10 years is not available at this stage. Fee revenue from ID cards and biometric passports will be set to recover the operational resource costs incurred in delivering the products and the fees will be set so that the provision of...

Written Answers — Home Department: Illegal Immigrants: Employment (14 Jan 2009)

Jacqui Smith: ...system in a generation which also includes the global roll-out of fingerprint visas, compulsory watch-list checks for all travellers from high-risk countries before they land in Britain and ID cards for foreign nationals. The UK Border Agency is committed to tackling illegal migrant working and will act on any intelligence it receives that a business is employing illegal workers. Equally,...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards: ICT (12 Jan 2009)

Jacqui Smith: holding answer 9 December 2008 For the issue of ID cards in 2009, biometric and biographic information will be stored separately on secure systems being built by the supplier providing the technology for this stage of the National identity Scheme. Administrative information will also be held separately on the biographic system.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards: Public Opinion (18 Dec 2008)

Jacqui Smith: The Identity and Passport Services has received 3,073 items of correspondence regarding the identity cards and the National Identity Register from 1 November 2006 to 31 October 2008. Correspondence received regarding the national identity scheme is not recorded as being in support of or in opposition to identity cards. The volume of correspondence on the national identity scheme is recorded...

Written Answers — Home Department: Passports: Finance (16 Dec 2008)

Jacqui Smith: ...costs 2000-01 3.9 73.1 2001-02 3.8 82.1 2002-03 3.1 78.4 2003-04 5.5 82.3 2004-05 20.0 92.1 2005-06 21.7 107.3 2006-07 22.3 154.4 2007-08 17.2 159.0 The Identity Cards Scheme cost report published in November 2008 sets out the expected costs for the delivery of the scheme as a whole, which includes both identity cards and passports. In many cases,...

Bills Presented — Business Rate Supplements Bill: Home Affairs and Justice (4 Dec 2008) has video

Jacqui Smith: ...system were introduced, allowing us to control immigration by raising and lowering the bar depending on the needs of the economy and the country as a whole. Last week, too, we issued the first ID cards for foreign nationals—opposed by Opposition Members—to protect against identity fraud and illegal working, as well as to make it easier for people to prove that they are who they...

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Procurement (25 Nov 2008)

Jacqui Smith: ...Report, column 259W, on departmental procurement, based on the purchase order data held in the Home Department's financial database, the details of the payments made to Jeeves Jewellers, who provide warrant cards, in 2007-08 are as follows: Description of purchase Value (£) March 2007 Purchase of ID card holders 3,845.19 May 2007 Purchase of warrant card holders 394.50

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards: Biometrics (20 Nov 2008)

Jacqui Smith: It is intended that 10 plain fingerprint biometrics will be recorded and stored on the National Identity Register. The information to be recorded on the ID card will be prescribed in regulations to be approved by Parliament under section 6 of the Identity Cards Act 2006, but it is expected that two fingerprints will be recorded on the card.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards: Finance (19 Nov 2008)

Jacqui Smith: Between the financial years 2003-04 and 2005-06, £41.1 million was spent by the Home Office Identity Cards Programme in total. Since the merger of the Home Office Identity Cards Programme and the UK Passport Service to create the Identity and Passport Service on 1 April 2006, projects to deliver passports including facial images and fingerprints, identity cards and other improvements...

Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day]: Immigration Controls (21 Oct 2008) has video

Jacqui Smith: .... Of course, Conservative Members tried to weaken those measures when they came before the House, and they continue to oppose one of the Government's key policies to prevent abuse and illegal working: identity cards. Next month, we will issue the first compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals, as the first stage of the national identity scheme. ID cards will help us to protect against...

Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day]: Immigration Controls (21 Oct 2008) has video

Jacqui Smith: ...here indefinitely. Again, there was silence from the hon. Gentleman on the tough measures that we will take to make sure migrants speak English, obey the law and pay their way. The introduction of ID cards for foreign nationals next month will further strengthen our protections and provide greater reassurance. In the Conservatives' opposition to ID cards, we see another gaping hole in...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Immigration (19 Jun 2008)

Jacqui Smith: ...deportation of foreign nationals who have committed serious offences, and focusing over 1000 additional immigration staff on enforcement duties. Exploiting new technology and introducing compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals, trials for which are now in place. Strengthening new international alliances to help us secure returns, backed by a £40 million joint Foreign and...