Results 1-20 of 79 for id cards speaker:Andy Burnham

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (20 Apr 2006)

Andy Burnham: The Identity and Passport Service complies with the Data Protection Act, and this will continue once ID cards are issued, and the register is operational. The Information Commissioner is already responsible for ensuring compliance with the Data Protection Act, and he will continue to exercise this function in respect of the Identity and Passport Service. The Information Commissioner therefore...

Written Answers — Home Department: DNA Databases (18 Apr 2006)

Andy Burnham: There are no powers in the Identity Cards Act 2006 to require an applicant for an ID card to provide a DNA sample.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (20 Mar 2006)

Andy Burnham: My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary meets his colleague the First Minister regularly to discuss a range of issues, including identity cards. It has always been for the Scottish Executive and Parliament to decide whether ID cards should be used for accessing devolved public services, and the First Minister and my right hon. Friend are entirely in agreement on that.

Terrorism Bill (16 Mar 2006)

Andy Burnham: ID cards might have been quite useful.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (9 Mar 2006)

Andy Burnham: The identity cards programme has received six representations from individuals in the Warley constituency since 2001 regarding the ID cards scheme. Of those received, two were opposed and four were in support of the scheme. The programme has not received representations from any organisations identifying themselves as located within the Warley constituency.

Written Answers — Home Department: Biometric Information (2 Mar 2006)

Andy Burnham: The annual income from the proposed fee regime which will apply to the biometric passport and identity card package in each of the first three years of the identity card scheme will depend on the volume of passports and identity cards issued in each year and the level of fees charged. It is expected that the number of new or renewed passports issued to adults will be 4,157,000 in...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (2 Mar 2006)

Andy Burnham: It is currently planned that the ID card will be valid for travel within the EEA. As a result, they must comply with standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a branch of the UN. These standards stipulate that a travel document such as an identity card will need to have a proximity" chip, which will use radio frequencies to allow the card to be read at...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (27 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: The Government have always made clear that an ID card will not be required at any time for access to emergency treatment. This was emphasised when the policy was announced in November 2003, in 'Identity Cards: The Next Steps' (Cm 6020) No one would ever be refused medical treatment in an emergency or emergency social security benefits nor would vulnerable groups be refused critical services...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: I did not say that the set-up costs would be absorbed in the £584 million; they are additional. The baseline for the UK Passport Service is included in the £584 million. I said that the increment—the additional amount in respect of ID cards—was in the region of £200 million a year. That is the increment for the annual running costs; the set-up costs will be much...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: I am making the point that that figure relates to the budget for issuing biometric passports and identity cards to the public. The perspective that needs to be taken is that ID cards do not account for the whole of that amount. The hon. Gentleman makes my point partly for me: £1.7 billion is the annual cost to the UK of identity fraud, so the benefits case begins to stack up for the...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: My hon. Friend asks a fair question. The £584 million relates to the cost in its totality of issuing biometric passports and ID cards and, crucially, of enrolling people. That is where the bulk of the costs of the process would be. It would be an annual cost that the expanded Passport Service would need. She is right to suggest that it is possible that payment for some of the set-up...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: ..., but I hope to give way before I end my remarks. The Home Office benefits will, of course, play a significant part in realising the strategic benefits of the overall scheme, including protecting identity for the citizen, helping to reduce crime, protecting our national security, reducing the problems of illegal immigration and illegal working and enabling more efficient and effective...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: I want to make some progress. My two key points are, first, that the costs of the scheme are both realistic and affordable for the Government and the individual citizen and, secondly, that it is worth making the investment now because Britain does not have a high-standard, comprehensive system of identification. We have published the expected costs of issuing ID cards, and the current best...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: ...same as for passports: the costs of running the passport service are predominantly recovered from the fees people pay for their passport. That principle will continue when we introduce a biometric ID card system.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (13 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: Since January 2004, the Identity Cards Programme has received one representation in support of the ID Cards Scheme, in which the correspondent's address identifies them as residing within the constituency of Windsor.

Written Answers — Home Department: National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: The National Identity Register will not be directly linked to other public sector database. The Identity Cards Bill provides for the provision of information by and to the Secretary of State for the purposes of administrating and operating the ID Cards Scheme. Achieving this does not require particular public sector databases to be linked to the National Identity Register.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards/Verification (8 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: ...the development of biometric passports. The Council regulation on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by member states requires biometric facial identifiers to be included in passports by August 2006. It is anticipated that the Council will shortly make a decision on the date from which biometric fingerprints should also be included in...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (1 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: The Home Office has developed its current best estimate of the cost of using the ID cards scheme to support the services which it oversees and these costs have been incorporated into the business case. In deriving these estimates account has to be taken of current and planned levels of investment in similar or related technologies and the types of use required to support the particular...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (1 Feb 2006)

Andy Burnham: The identity cards programme team has received no representations from individuals or communities identifying themselves as either Christian, Hindu, Muslim or Sikh and living in the West Midlands region. However, the special issues research conducted in October and November 2004, comprised a number of focus groups which included a group of Hindu females and a group of Sikh males from...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (31 Jan 2006)

Andy Burnham: In the last 12 months, the Identity Cards Programme has received four representations from individuals concerning the photographic element of identity cards. None of the correspondents disclosed their religion, and the focus of their representations was a concern that individuals required by their religion to cover their face should not be exempted from the requirement to have their...