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

Chris Grayling: May I ask the Minister a simple question? The Home Secretary told us last week that the voluntary ID card scheme would be self-financing. How many people need to sign up for that voluntary scheme in order for it to break even and become self-financing?

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

Chris Grayling: The right hon. Gentleman suggests that I have changed my mind. He clearly voted for motions and supported policies on compulsion and the importance of ID cards in combating terrorism. When did he change his mind?

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

Chris Grayling: I have a simple question for the Home Secretary: how many people will have to volunteer to take up an ID card, and will have to pay their £30, before the scheme breaks even?

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

Chris Grayling: I beg to move, That this House believes the Government's identity cards scheme should be cancelled immediately. May I begin my remarks with an apology to the Home Secretary? When he made his statement about identity cards last week, I joked with him that his announcement was a fudge arranged between a new Home Secretary who wanted to scrap the ID cards scheme and a Prime Minister who did not....

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

Chris Grayling: ...force in this country—that is what we need—the problem would not arise in the first place because we would intercept those illegal immigrants at the border. We were told that with the card, nobody need any longer fear that their identity could be stolen, because the Government would have it under lock and key—unless of course someone decided to burn the contents of the...

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

Chris Grayling: ...from successive Home Secretaries that this Government are incapable of delivering this scheme. I have spoken with many people in the security world and not one has argued that we are wrong about ID cards and that they are an essential part of the security tool kit. I ask the Home Secretary why he has changed his mind about ID cards and terrorism. After all the statements by the Government...

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

Chris Grayling: ...to scrap the scheme outright. I was disappointed to discover that that was not the case. We will have to await the arrival of the new Government to secure that change. Of course, the battle over ID cards between Ministers has been played out over the airwaves and the newspaper columns for some time now. We have seen an array of different opinions aired about how best either to keep or end...

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

Chris Grayling: The hon. Gentleman clearly was not listening to what I said a moment ago. The big issue that we have when it comes to people getting into and out of the country is the lack of a proper border police force. That has been central to the strategy that the Conservative party has put forward for a long time. The Government made an attempt to copy the policy two years ago but failed to do so...

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

Chris Grayling: We will certainly cancel the national identity register. As the hon. Gentleman knows, we might be in a position in which, in order to allow people to travel to the United States, we need to process biometric data and to pursue the introduction of biometric passports. We have not backed away from the biometric passport option and, I understand, nor has he. Clearly, data collection will be...

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

Chris Grayling: I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is talking complete nonsense. He needs to go back and read the Identity Cards Act 2006 and look at the difference between the two schemes, one of which is a vast collection of personal data, as opposed to a limited amount of information needed to issue a passport. If he does not understand the difference between the two, I am afraid that I will not be able...