Results 1-5 of 5 for id cards speaker:Kerry McCarthy

Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill (1 Mar 2007)

Kerry McCarthy: Moving on, you raised the point about the police potentially harassing peopleand demanding identification and so on. In my   constituency, there must be a significant number of people who may or may not be legally entitled to be in this country, but might be open to suspicion. Would it not be a lot easier, if somebody wanted to check their identity, for them just to be able to produce an...

Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill (1 Mar 2007)

Kerry McCarthy: ..., in that there is an employers’ hot line, which they can phone up and check, but it is obviously more complicated for an employer, say, to make a phone call than it is for somebody to get an ID card out of their wallet. You are talking about another scenario. I was talking more about the police rather than employers carrying out checks. If the police wanted to check someone’s...

Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill: Further written evidence to be reported to the House (1 Mar 2007)

Kerry McCarthy: In your wider role as a spokesperson for others in theindustry, do you have discussions with your European counterparts, or with people in other countries with biometric systems and ID cards? Can lessons be learned from their experiences?

Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill (27 Feb 2007)

Kerry McCarthy: Do either of you in your work come across cases when foreign nationals have real trouble proving their identity—for example, when they are trying to access public services in the course of their employment? Do you think that the use of biometric registration would help them to get around that problem? If you do not think that biometric ID cards are the answer, what do you suggest would...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Asylum Seekers (19 Feb 2007)

Kerry McCarthy: I have been trying to find out for quite some time just how many failed asylum seekers there are in my constituency and the wider Bristol area. So far, the only statistic that I have been able to uncover is that 260 people are claiming section 4 support in the whole of the south-west region, which is some way from giving a true picture of the situation. Does my hon. Friend agree that this is...