Results 1-15 of 15 for id cards speaker:David Winnick

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications relating to entries in Register (13 Feb 2006)

David Winnick: There is bound to be concern among opponents of ID cards that if someone receives a passport or reapplies for one their details will be entered on the register. My right hon. Friend rightly said—some people may have overlooked this—that an affirmative order is necessary. However, given that there would be a limited debate if such an order were made, does he not accept that there...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 — Power of the Secretary of State to require registration (13 Feb 2006)

David Winnick: I share my hon. Friend's complete opposition to ID cards, but should not those of us on the Labour Benches who have urged the Government to listen and respond to criticism of this and other issues welcome the fact that they have done so? Like my hon. Friend, I would rather that they scrapped the whole business, but as they will not, the fact that primary legislation will be required for...

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

David Winnick: ...because it is subject to a three-line Whip, understandably, but I do not think that it would get through, or that it would have received its Second Reading, on a free vote. I have been opposed to ID cards from the very beginning. Although the hon. and learned Gentleman spoke with much passion, I must tell him that the only member of the Home Affairs Committee that studied the matter who...

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

David Winnick: To get matters in perspective, perhaps we should remember that the Leader of the Opposition was an ardent supporter of ID cards, and had he got his way it is likely that a Tory Government would have introduced them. I am also pretty certain that we, the then Opposition, would have opposed them. I am not sure whether there is some consistency there. Even were there not the many practical...

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

David Winnick: If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I will not. When the Home Affairs Committee took evidence, the point was made by a number of witnesses that it is not just the identity card but the database and the national identity register that should give a good deal of cause for concern. They certainly gave me, if not my colleagues on the Home Affairs Committee, cause for concern. Indeed, rather than...

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

David Winnick: If we should not be at all concerned about these proposals, following all the reassurances that my right hon. Friend is giving, why would the Information Commissioner say that the ID card would be an "unnecessary and disproportionate intrusion" into our liberty? Should not we take Mr. Thomas's comments very seriously indeed? Is it not also a fact that, if we had a free vote on the Bill...

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 31 — Tampering with the Register etc. (10 Feb 2005)

Mr David Winnick: It is normal practice for the Opposition to complain about the lack of parliamentary time. We did so when we were in opposition, but on this occasion, I agree that inadequate time has been allotted for such an important measure. It should not have been crowded in on a Thursday and there should have been far greater examination of the detail. If I may say so, I know that the Home Secretary is...

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 31 — Tampering with the Register etc. (10 Feb 2005)

Mr David Winnick: Will my right hon. Friend distinguish between the opportunist position of the Conservative party and those of us who oppose ID cards in principle but would change our minds—certainly I would, without the slightest hesitation—if we thought that they would help in the fight against international terrorism? I hope he recognises that although my opposition is based on principle, it...

Identity Cards Bill: New Clause 1 — National Identification Scheme (10 Feb 2005)

Mr David Winnick: .... My other amendment relates to public services. In effect, my argument is that it should not be necessary for those seeking hospital treatment or access to other public services to produce an ID card. At Prime Minister's Question Time yesterday, my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dudley, North (Ross Cranston), who is a supporter of identity cards, said nevertheless that people do...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (20 Dec 2004)

Mr David Winnick: I disagree strongly with my right hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Denham). He said that he could not understand why there should be such concern and controversy. I serve on the Home Affairs Committee, which he chairs, and he will know that we have had many disagreements on this. I could not agree with the majority report of the Home Affairs Committee. I made my opposition...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (20 Dec 2004)

Mr David Winnick: I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me for not giving way. I am putting what is perhaps a minority point of view among Labour Members. Surely, if identity cards along the lines proposed would help deter terrorism, the argument would be that they should be introduced much sooner. What will happen between now and their introduction in six or seven years? That makes no sense to me, which is...

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Mr David Winnick: I am aware that my hon. Friend was not around at the time of the decision to abolish ID cards in 1952, but am I to take it from his comments that he thinks it was wrong?

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Mr David Winnick: I am sure that that would be the position. In time, it would be argued that since everyone had given information, because it was the law to do so, there was no reason why law-abiding citizens should not carry cards. Does anyone seriously believe that terrorism would be undermined by ID cards? I want to make it clear that if I thought that terrorism would be more effectively dealt with by ID...

Identity Cards (5 Nov 2003)

Mr David Winnick: My hon. Friend is an enthusiast for cards. I have conceded that forgery would be difficult, unlike in the case of wartime cards. However, the fact remains that the Home Office itself, in its consultation paper, which I know that he has read, concedes that forgery is more than a possibility. I am sure that the Home Secretary is putting great pressure on his Cabinet colleagues so that ID cards...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (22 Dec 1997)

Mr David Winnick: Is my hon. Friend aware that there is a lobby equally opposed to the introduction of a national identity card scheme, and that those of us who are opposed will have to be persuaded that there is a genuine need for ID cards in a democracy in peacetime? One associates a national identity card scheme more with totalitarian societies. I hope that my hon. Friend will see to it that the Government...