Results 1-20 of 24 for id cards speaker:Phil Woolas

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Information and Communications Technology (3 Nov 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...much has been spent on development of IT Systems IT Systems that have been implemented IT Systems terminated prior to implementation IT Systems terminated pos t implementation National identity Scheme—IPS element Delivery of the Next Generation Passport and ID Services £4.945 billion planned total spend ( including IT Systems, IT enabled Business Transformation and...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Students (13 Oct 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...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. Further to this, Local Immigration Teams (LITs) are being established to serve every community in the UK. Each local team will enforce immigration laws working...

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigrants: Somalia (7 Jul 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...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.

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...not being here at the beginning of the debate? I am sure that the House would have been supporting me in what I was doing in France in securing our borders. The modern-day Conservative party has an identity crisis. It is seeking to square its authoritarian instinct with its liberal appeal. Up and down this country there are Conservative councils that use CCTV and use access cards for local...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

Phil Woolas: The economics of that argument are ridiculous. The same could be said of the passport service. If, goodness forbid, the hon. Gentleman were ever in a position of having to take a decision and he were asked what he thought the passport fee for the next year should be, and his officials provided him with a brief saying, "We don't know how many are going to be sold next year, Minister, so we...

Public Bill Committee: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]: Clause 51 (16 Jun 2009)

Phil Woolas: Once again, we see the Conservative party trying to reconcile its authoritarian instinct with its liberal appeal. The hon. Gentleman said, although he was not prepared to put it in these words, that he supports the electronic borders system. He then went on to say that he opposes intrusion on the innocent. How am I to identify the innocent? How am I to do that in practice, without the very...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards: Local Government (1 Jun 2009)

Phil Woolas: As announced on 6 May 2009, residents of Greater Manchester (the city's 10 boroughs) will be the first British citizens to be able to apply for a voluntary ID card from autumn 2009. The precise details of the role that local authorities might play in the future rollout of ID cards in any chosen geographical location have yet to be determined, bearing in mind the need to make use of existing...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Overseas Visitors (20 Apr 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...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 Information: Cross-Border Travel (23 Mar 2009)

Phil Woolas: The e-Borders system will allow us to count people in and out of the country by screening all passenger and crew data against watch lists in advance of travel. This will help us to identify those persons, including serious criminals and terrorists, who pose a risk to the UK and take action where appropriate. These checks make up just one part if Britain's triple ring of security alongside...

Written Answers — Home Department: Illegal Immigrants (16 Mar 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...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. The Government's plans, set out in 'Enforcing the Deal', published on 19 June 2008, set a clear goal to target and remove the most harmful people first, working...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (10 Mar 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...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. The Government's plans, set out in "Enforcing the Deal" published on 19 June 2008, set a clear goal to target and remove the most harmful people first, working...

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Mass Media (26 Feb 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...Branch Less lethal alternatives to firearms—tasers, CS gas, etc. Police corruption, complaints, discipline Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCC) Very significant stories about individual police authorities, chief constables and forces Major speeches or articles by individual Chief Constables Significant coverage of the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Police...

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration (27 Jan 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...and immigration system in a generation. Last year we launched the UK Border Agency. With a combined budget of £2 billion, a staffing complement of 25,000 and a presence in 135 countries world-wide, Britain's border security is now among the toughest in the world. Since the launch of the UKBA our officers have seized over 800 million cigarettes, representing a potential loss of over...

Written Answers — Home Department: Illegal Immigrants: Employment (12 Jan 2009)

Phil Woolas: ...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: Illegal Immigrants (15 Dec 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...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.

Written Answers — Home Department: Ipsos Mori (13 Nov 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...Home Department and its agencies payments to Ipsos MORI in the last 24 months is as follows: Department/agency Total payment in last 24 months (£) HO Headquarters and UKBA 1,256,896 Identity and Passport Service (IPS) 107,659 Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) 177,000 Ipsos MORI has provided a wide variety of services to the Home Office Headquarters and UKBA in the last...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (11 Nov 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...programme of border protection 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. On 19 June 2008, the Government set out its plans to more robustly enforce the immigration rules including the removal of those not entitled to be here. Copies...