Results 1-10 of 10 for id cards speaker:Kitty Ussher
- Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 40 (3 Mar 2009)
Kitty Ussher: I am extremely happy to do that. It may reassure the hon. Gentleman to know that the approach we are taking here is exactly the same as that in the Identity Cards Act 2006. That amended legislation concerning football banning and travel restriction orders where an individual is required to surrender his or her passport. In due course, he or she will also have to surrender their ID card....
- Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 40 (3 Mar 2009)
Kitty Ussher: It is in order to mirror the provisions were it to be a passport that is effectively annulled under the current legal situation. It is removing that part of the ID card that is equivalent to a passport and a travel document, while retaining all the other entitlements that could, hypothetically, be accessible after a future Act of Parliament. It is residence, not citizenship, that denotes...
- Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill: Clause 5 (8 Mar 2007)
Kitty Ussher: What does the hon. Gentleman say to British Muslims in my constituency who would like ID cards to prove that they are here in a valid way and are British?
- Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill: Clause 5 (8 Mar 2007)
Kitty Ussher: Is not the logical extension of thehon. Gentleman’s argument—we do not want to differentiate people born abroad from people born here—that everybody should be forced to have ID cards?
- Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill: Clause 5 (8 Mar 2007)
Kitty Ussher: ...I feel compelled to. I was simply pointing out the illogicality of the Conservative position in being in favour of biometric documentation for immigration purposes—as the hon. Gentleman has said, he did not vote against the Bill on Second Reading—but saying that subsequent differentiation of people according to whether they were born here or abroad would be a problem. I simply...
- Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill (1 Mar 2007)
Kitty Ussher: I think that we know your views on ID cards, generally—I would suggest that the clue is in the name of your organisation. However, I wanted to put that to one side and specifically ask you both—whichever of you would like to answer—whether you think that the proposals in the Bill will be useful in terms of our immigration policy specifically.
- Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill (1 Mar 2007)
Kitty Ussher: So, it is the view of NO2ID that biometric ID cards for immigration purposes only can be an effective immigration tool as long as they are done with the minimum of red tape?
- Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill (1 Mar 2007)
Kitty Ussher: Are there circumstances in which you could have a biometric ID card, for immigration purposes only, which would be useful to a country in conducting its immigration policy?
- Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill (1 Mar 2007)
Kitty Ussher: ...it follows that, because it is not mentioned, people will not have to carry them. We would obviouslywelcome that. My concern is why you believe that because the extra document—a biometric ID card—will exist, the police will be any more likely to stop people arbitrarily. I do not quite understand that. Specifically, I thought that such arbitrary behaviour on the part of the...
- Public Bill Committee: UK Borders Bill (1 Mar 2007)
Kitty Ussher: ...you are alleging, if you do not mind me saying so, because the reason I came back to this line of questioning was that it seemed there were allegations being made that the introduction of biometric ID cards for foreigners would lead to the police stopping people because of what they looked like. I do not think you are alleging that although you have some broad concerns about the way that...