Results 1-14 of 14 for id cards speaker:Alistair Carmichael

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

Alistair Carmichael: ...complexity of the debate rather masks the simplicity of the issues at stake here. The point to be made here is not greatly dissimilar to that which we made in relation to compulsion, namely that if identity cards were as good as was claimed, why was compulsion necessary? If the Government's plans are as well costed and as affordable as they would have us believe, they should have nothing...

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

Alistair Carmichael: ...but I shall resist his blandishments. The Government sought to justify the measure by claiming that it will enable us to catch up with other European Union countries. Twenty other EU countries have ID cards. In 10 countries they are compulsory, and in the other 10 they are voluntary.

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

Alistair Carmichael: ...Friend Lord Phillips of Sudbury put the matter nicely when he moved the amendment in another place. He stated: "We seek to replace compulsion by voluntarism. Citizens should not be forced to have ID cards. Compulsion is far too often resorted to by the modern state. That comes from an intensely managerial culture in which regulation rules. That sits uneasily with fundamental rights such as...

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

Alistair Carmichael: ...scrutiny than has ever been the case with other legislation, an enormous number of questions remain. The House has still not addressed the practical issues surrounding the proposal. That is no accident. It is the result of the way in which the Government chose to present the Bill. The Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality has told us times without number that this is an...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Card Scheme (12 Sep 2005)

Alistair Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with representatives of the shipping industry on the implementation of the ID card scheme.

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 14 - Use of information for verification or otherwise with consent (14 Jul 2005)

Alistair Carmichael: It had to happen eventually that we would seek to delete “may” and insert “shall”. We have reached our eighth sitting, so we did well to resist the temptation thus far. This is a classic probing amendment that seeks to tease out information from the Minister, although it would have made sense to put in “shall” rather than “may” in the first...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 10 - Functions of persons issuing designated documents (12 Jul 2005)

Alistair Carmichael: I cannot remember what I said before we were interrupted, although I had not said an awful lot and I certainly do not have an awful lot to say. The basis of the amendment is to break the link between designated documents and the identity card. Clause 10(2) states: ''A designated documents authority which issues a designated document to an individual who does not hold a valid ID card must...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 9 - Renewal of ID cards for those compulsorily registered (12 Jul 2005)

Alistair Carmichael: I shall be brief. I bring the attention of the Committee to subsection (2), which states: ''If the individual— (a) holds a valid ID card that is due to expire within the prescribed period; or (b) does not hold a valid ID card, he must apply for one within the prescribed period.'' Given the earlier discussion, I would be grateful to know what the Government intend that prescribed...

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

Alistair Carmichael: ...take. I recall some blurb on the front page about Her Britannic Majesty requiring those required to do so to allow the bearer safe passage, or something of that ilk. That is very different from ID cards. No biometric information would have been held for a passport. If one goes back far enough, I imagine that a passport would not even have had a photograph. I do not know, in all honesty,...

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

Alistair Carmichael: ...out subsection (7). It seeks to break the link between prescribed documents, whether those documents are passports or anything else that turns out to be prescribed in the course of things, and ID cards. Again, it is for the Government to explain why they   insist so strongly on the link being made in this way. Surely if the scheme is not compulsory, it should be open to the individual...

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

Alistair Carmichael: I beg to move amendment No. 155, in clause 8, page 7, line 21, leave out from ''period'' to end of line 22. The amendment would remove subsection (3)(d)—that is, the provision that an ID card issued to an individual ''remains the property of the person issuing it.'' Again, this is a probing amendment. Its import is that it is rubbing salt into the wound to say that someone is compelled...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 - Applications relating to entries in Register (12 Jul 2005)

Alistair Carmichael: ...it got its sticky little mitts on this scheme, it would take 48 hours before the whole thing was turned into reverse. That would be the most effective way of undermining the implementation of the ID card scheme that I could possibly hope for. The Minister said that there were no wild or stunning revelations; he has rarely spoken a truer   word, and the lack of such revelations...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 2 - Individuals entered in Register (7 Jul 2005)

Alistair Carmichael: ...the Secretary of State a range of powers that, although he might not intend to use them, go beyond what Parliament should allow. Amendment No. 156 would have much the same effect in relation to the card as amendment No. 125 would have in relation to the ID register. We have been spared having too many debates on whether it is appropriate to use “must” instead of...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 - The National Identity Register (5 Jul 2005)

Alistair Carmichael: ...clear right at the start of my remarks that I think the hon. and learned Gentleman has done the Committee a service in raising the issues and tabling an amendment that allows detailed consideration of such definitions, because, as he knows, definitions can be very important. To lay down a marker in case he is   minded to force a Division on the amendment, I should say that I am not...