Results 1-13 of 13 for id cards speaker:John Robertson

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (12 Jul 2005)

John Robertson: The hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland said that he will not need a card, other than to scrape his car with it. He will not have to have the ID card on his person at any time whatever, so he can lose it for ever and nobody will know or care. The approach of the hon. and learned Member for Harborough is that the card is compulsory, that it must be carried at all times and that the hon....

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (12 Jul 2005)

John Robertson: Barring the hon. Gentleman's own political principles, which he obviously swallowed when he voted with Tommy Sheridan, perhaps he could say whether he agrees with the point that I was trying to make to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland, which is that the argument is not about the cost but about the ID card itself, people's principles, and their arguments for and against it. As I pointed...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (12 Jul 2005)

John Robertson: ...is about how much people should pay, and that is what we should debate, but the measure bears no resemblance to the poll tax. I do not see people going out in the streets because of payment for ID cards. They may do it   because they do not like them, but that is a different argument. If that is the argument that the hon. Gentleman wants, I am happy to have it, but using the Bill as a...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (12 Jul 2005)

John Robertson: The hon. Gentleman is making wagers now. I will make a wager that there will not be any warrant sales over ID cards. I am sorry, but that is something that is not likely to happen.

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 3 - Information recorded in Register (7 Jul 2005)

John Robertson: ...am thinking of stories involving an attempt to take child out of the country illegally—but there could be cases in which people with dual nationality hold a British passport, and therefore an ID card, and a foreign passport. There are people from Ireland and various parts of Europe in the UK, but where would the information that those people held two passports be?

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (20 Jan 2005)

Mr John Robertson: ...his points somewhat, but always within the bounds of what is right. I detect something from what he is saying today. Is he not in fact against the Bill in its entirety? He is not in favour of ID cards. Will he come out and say that?

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 3 - Information recorded in Register (18 Jan 2005)

Mr John Robertson: I wish to speak to amendment No. 155, which would introduce the opportunity for the Secretary of State to set out by regulation procedure governing circumstances where an individual is unable to provide certain biometric data on medical grounds. Clause 41(4) states: ''Subject to subsection (7), every power conferred by this Act on a person to make an order or regulations includes...

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

Mr John Robertson: Much of what I wanted to say has already been said, but I have been taking notes, and I may be able to shed some light on the comments of others. My hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) made great play of what would happen in the event of corrupt information or input errors. In effect, he said "Don't do it: there should not be any kind of ID card." If we followed his argument...

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

Mr John Robertson: ...real, and start to come down to planet earth from wherever he is at the moment. The hon. Member for Cheadle (Mrs. Calton) made a great case about how my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary had said that the ID card would be the panacea for all ills, but not only did she misquote him, she deliberately misinterpreted what my right hon. Friend said. He was trying to say that ID cards will...

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

Mr John Robertson: The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point, with which I am inclined to have sympathy. But if we are considering the general good of the nation, not just England as the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman did earlier, and what will make people feel secure, ID cards will go a long way to doing that. Great play has been made of the fact that having an ID card will not stop a terrorist, and that is a...

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

Mr John Robertson: I have given way enough. ID cards will help to tackle illegal working. Abuse of the immigration system is something that colleagues who encounter many asylum seekers, as I do, will know about. Glasgow is the only city in Scotland that hosts asylum seekers, so we know quite a bit about them up our way. While I try to help every single asylum seeker who comes to my surgery—I can assure...

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

Mr John Robertson: The right hon. and learned Gentleman cites the Madrid bombings. Would he be interested to hear that the Spanish police have said that nearly all the terrorists involved in that horrible event have now been arrested thanks to the ID cards in that country?

European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill (21 Oct 2003)

Mr John Robertson: ...solving that problem. The hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) mentioned security problems. His was the best speech that I have heard in a long time in favour of the introduction of identity cards. He appeared to be worried about people voting as others, or otherwise misusing the electronic systems, but one of the ways in which the system is misused the most involves...