Results 1-5 of 5 for id cards speaker:Tom Harris
- Public Bill Committee: Crossrail Bill: Clause 11 (22 Nov 2007)
Tom Harris: Before I address the serious concerns mentioned by the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster, I congratulate the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington on managing to include ID cards in a Crossrail debate. The hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster made his case well in relation to potential blight. He has raised his concerns on that subject on a number of occasions,...
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (28 Jun 2005)
Tom Harris: I congratulate the hon. Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr. Cox) on his maiden speech. We could be forgiven for not realising that it was a maiden speech, so confident was his delivery. I am sure that he will have no problem in articulating the concerns of his constituents in years to come, and I wish him every success in doing so. I have some concerns about the debate so far. Some of...
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (28 Jun 2005)
Tom Harris: I reserve the right to disagree with the Information Commissioner. The House has the right and the duty to make its own judgments, and not simply to take advice and act on information from outside. Going slightly off the point, there was a similar argument last year about information handed down to us from on high by the Electoral Commission. Do we do exactly what the commission tells us or...
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (28 Jun 2005)
Tom Harris: I shall not submit to that nonsense—that a dictatorship is waiting to be elected to the government of the UK. The Executive is held to account by the House and I am confident that the country can rely on that safeguard. The British public can see through the hysterical paranoia that concludes that ID cards represent some major surrender of civil liberties. They can see through the claim...
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (28 Jun 2005)
Tom Harris: Does the hon. Gentleman nevertheless accept what my right hon. Friend said in his statement—that even if ID cards could not have prevented the Madrid atrocities, they certainly helped the authorities to track down the culprits?