Results 1-5 of 5 for id cards speaker:Mark Harper
- Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 40 (3 Mar 2009)
Mark Harper: ...this amendment rather familiar. The amendment looks at the definition of travel authorisation: there are two definitions in clause 40. The first is a United Kingdom passport and the second is an ID card. The reason for mentioning this is that, under the Government’s proposals, an ID card is not just a travel authorisation document. The Government plan eventually to use the ID card as...
- Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 40 (3 Mar 2009)
Mark Harper: If the replacement ID card does not indicate that the holder is a British citizen, how can it be used as a method of determining whether they are entitled to a range of other public services or benefits, some of which may require that they be a British citizen in order to qualify for them?
- Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 40 (3 Mar 2009)
Mark Harper: ...this on the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill—maybe that issue had not been worked out then. [Interruption.] That was not a dig at the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington. He did a generally excellent job of championing that Bill through the House of Commons and turning it into an Act of Parliament. It was just on that particular question that he did not provide anything...
- Public Bill Committee: Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill: Clause 25 (11 Oct 2007)
Mark Harper: I have a couple of things to add. The hon. Gentleman has raised the principle, and I want to go on the record and say that the official Opposition do not support the introduction of ID cards, not only for the reasons that he has identified, but because they will be ineffective and useless. The other two amendments were intended to tease one or two other things out of the Minister. Amendment...
- Public Bill Committee: Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill (17 Jul 2007)
Mark Harper: ...disqualification for holding or obtaining a driving licence, the commission has to seek a court order. Why the difference? Furthermore, given that “travel authorisation” means also identity cards—I do not wish to rehearse the arguments about those—and that the Government’s vision is that, at some point, ID cards will have a role beyond travel and allow...