Results 1-17 of 17 for id cards speaker:Nicholas Clegg

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (3 Dec 2008) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I agree with the right hon. Gentleman. That involves the much wider issue of the lop-sided nature of the information, power and prerogatives of the Executive, compared with the increasingly feeble powers and prerogatives of the legislature. From the point of view of the public, this matter should not simply topple into an arcane, introspective debate about parliamentary privilege—a...

Cafcass: G20 Summit (17 Nov 2008) has video

Nicholas Clegg: ...spoke a great deal today about a fiscal stimulus, and it is rumoured that he wants to borrow money for a temporary tax rebate. In my view, it is right to give money back to people on low and middle incomes who are more likely to spend some of that money, but instead of borrowing for a one-off tax cut, the Prime Minister could pay for a big permanent tax cut by ending unfair loopholes for...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (29 Oct 2008) has video

Nicholas Clegg: ...be spent wisely, he wants to waste £13 billion on an NHS computer system that does not work, £12 billion on a surveillance database, which will spy on everybody in the country, and billions more on ID cards. He could redirect all that money to the things that people really need in a recession: homes for hard-pressed families; good child care, so that people can go out to look for...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Immigration Review (9 Jul 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: I welcome the Home Secretary to her first Home Affairs questions. The Government have made much of the role that identity cards will play in the management of our immigration system. Her Minister for Immigration and Asylum said to me on the Floor of the House in February that up to 70 per cent. of the cost of ID cards would be absorbed by the introduction of biometric passports. Given that in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (19 Feb 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: The Minister said that 70 per cent. of the costs of ID cards would be covered by biometric passports. How is it possible to make that assertion when we still have no information from the Government on the technical costs of the ID cards project and when there is still a vast discrepancy between the cost estimates? The estimate from the Government is £5.4 billion and up to £19...

Delegated Legislation: Government's Crime Record (7 Feb 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: ...out of the mess is that they should get their priorities right. Why are they spending £100,000 of taxpayers' money every day on an unworkable, illiberal and unnecessary scheme to introduce ID cards, while they are slashing the promised number of community support officers who really make a difference by quelling public fear of crime and antisocial behaviour in our communities? Why...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: No, I do not have time because many Back Bench wish to speak. The hon. Gentleman is familiar with the list. We would restore the right to protest in Westminster, we would scrap ID cards and we would make sure that the money saved from ID cards goes towards making a difference to citizens. [Interruption.] If I may, I shall make a little progress. I credit the Home Secretary with being right...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Theft (17 Jul 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: ...civil servants in this country selling hundreds of thousands of records to organised criminals for tax credit fraud, does the Minister agree that holding so much personal information on one single ID card database will—far from dealing with identity theft—be an open invitation to criminals to commit even greater identity fraud?

Royal Assent: Intelligence and Security Committee (Annual Report) (11 Jul 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: I used the powerful example of the report on the death of Zahid Mubarek, which was published after two earlier investigations, to point out that its recommendations were made after it was claimed that all the lessons had been learned and all the information had been uncovered. I do not know the unknowable but, given the enormity of the 7 July attacks, I do not understand why the hon. Lady...

Identity Cards Bill (29 Mar 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: ..., but this climbdown does not pass the key test: that any move to compulsion must, under all circumstances, occur after the latest possible date of the next general election. As has been said, it is also significantly less important as a concession than Lord Armstrong's original amendment, since it only allows people to opt out of having the cards; their details will still appear on the ID...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (29 Mar 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: ...facing the amendments before us today, which are arguably just as problematic from his point of view, because they would, as he explained, allow a wholesale opt-out from the need to register for an ID card. It remains my view that he would have been well advised to settle for the amendments that were before us last week. Even so, I hope that, even at this late stage, the Home Secretary...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (21 Mar 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: ...amendments would suggest that they are very serious compromises indeed. Let me highlight three reasons for that. First, the amendments are a major concession of principle from those who objected to identity cards and their compulsory introduction, because opponents accept for the first time that they will become compulsory, but according to a deferred timetable. That has been a painful and...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: The simple facts are that the Government say that ID cards will be introduced voluntarily, yet the 80 to 85 per cent. of the British population who possess passports will, if the Bill is passed, have an ID card foisted on them in coming years whether they like it or not. By refusing to acknowledge the blindingly obvious—that a measure applied by stealth compulsion on the vast majority...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: ...-speaking world, I shall take a slightly different line of inquiry. If, according to the Government, the scheme will be voluntary, will British citizens be able to withdraw their data from the ID database voluntarily? I know of no database in operation to which individuals can voluntarily enter their data, and from which they are not equally free to remove that information at a time of...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: The key point is the distortion of the English language: saying that the ID card will be introduced voluntarily and yet doing it through compulsion. As to whether the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) is a paradox, I leave that for the hon. Member for Battersea (Martin Linton) to judge.

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications relating to entries in Register (13 Mar 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: ...disagreement on the meaning of that one word. The Labour party's manifesto at the last election was refreshingly—some would say uncharacteristically—clear on the introduction of identity cards. ID cards would, the manifesto said—it bears repetition—be rolled out "initially on a voluntary basis as people renew their passports". Liberal Democrat Members take that to...

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications relating to entries in Register (13 Mar 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: ...be made through primary legislation. We are being asked to accept that gratefully as a significant concession. What possible purpose will be served by primary legislation to make the possession of identity cards compulsory if they have, to all intents and purposes, already been made compulsory for the vast majority of the population? Legislating badly is one thing. Legislating for...