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Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: ...choices on pensions, on public sector pay and on benefits? It is the Opposition who are behaving like a Government-not the Government, who are behaving like an Opposition. The Prime Minister said that we would lead the world out of recession. Do we all remember that one? In fact, the rest of the world-the US, France, Germany and the eurozone-are all out of recession and we are still in it....

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Engagements (19 Mar 2008) has video

David Cameron: ...call an election, so he can ask six a week. In the meantime, my responsibility is to ask him questions on behalf of the country, and his responsibility is to answer on behalf of the Government. ID cards for foreigners are just a way of spinning biometric visas, and there is not a person in the House of Commons who is opposed to them. Let me try another question. [Interruption.] It is good...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jan 2008) has video

David Cameron: I am on my second Labour Prime Minister as well. A few months ago, a Home Office Minister said: "It is the Government's policy that ID cards should eventually be compulsory for everyone resident in the United Kingdom who is aged 16 or over."—[ Official Report, 20 March 2007; Vol. 458, c. 784W.] Is that still the Government's policy?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: National Security (25 Jul 2007)

David Cameron: I thank the Prime Minister for his statement, and I very much agree with what he said in praising the police, the security services and the public for what they did to combat those terrorist attacks. This is an area, of course, where we can and will work together. Does the Prime Minister agree with me that the threat we face from terrorism today is of a different order from the threats we...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (19 Jul 2006)

David Cameron: We need a tougher penalty in law, and the Prime Minister neutered the Bill. There is a clear pattern: police mergers, dropped; ID cards, dropped; home information packs, dropped; planning reforms, dropped; laws to protect public servants, dropped. Given the Government's complete inability to implement their programme, how can he possibly believe that the right thing to do is to put the Deputy...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Jul 2006)

David Cameron: So the flagship of forced mergers has sunk without trace. Let us turn to another flagship that is sinking fast—ID cards. Will the Prime Minister admit to the House that the whole project is now being reviewed, including the timetable and the type of card?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Jul 2006)

David Cameron: This week we have seen police mergers abandoned, ID cards delayed, tax credits completely defrauded and, after all that, we have discovered that we have a Deputy Prime Minister who thinks he is a cowboy! Apparently, he is "really looking forward" to standing in for the Prime Minister over the summer. Please tell us that that is not going to happen.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (18 Jan 2006)

David Cameron: With rising deficits in the NHS, huge costs of pension reform and tighter pressures on public spending, how can the Prime Minister claim that spending at least £600 million a year on his ID card scheme is a good use of public money?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (18 Jan 2006)

David Cameron: When it comes to who is working with the Prime Minister, perhaps he could answer the following question. It has been widely reported that the Chancellor does not back ID cards and would scrap them, so will the Prime Minister give a guarantee that, when the Chancellor takes over his job, the scheme will be continued?