Results 1-8 of 8 for id cards speaker:Tim Farron

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 — Issue etc. of ID Cards (18 Oct 2005)

Tim Farron: Is the Minister therefore saying that the entire cost of ID cards will be borne by citizens paying up front for the card, and not by the taxpayer?

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications Relating to Entries in the Register (18 Oct 2005)

Tim Farron: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. I feel in no way comfortable with the idea of living in such a society. He has moved us on to the important issue of people becoming excluded from basic services not because they live in rural or isolated areas, but for other reasons. The hon. and learned Member for Harborough referred earlier to the 20 per cent. of people who will...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications Relating to Entries in the Register (18 Oct 2005)

Tim Farron: I will be brief. The Government have sought to curtail this debate and I do not want to aid or abet them. The hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) pointed out the serious concerns that exist about the effective compulsion in which the introduction of the identity card system and the attendant database will result. Given that possession of an ID card is linked so closely to entitlement...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications Relating to Entries in the Register (18 Oct 2005)

Tim Farron: I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point, which highlights one of the many other ways in which the £5 billion that will be spent on the ID card system could be better spent. There are great problems with the public transport services in rural areas such as mine. They are much more expensive, and much less available and convenient, than they should be, so access to...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 - The National Identity Register (6 Jul 2005)

Tim Farron: .... We are told that we are dealing with enabling legislation; as a consequence, surely the paragraphs that we seek to remove are unnecessary. As my hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland said, function creep is built into the Bill by paragraphs (c) to (i). We seek to help the Government. They are addressing the reduction in public support for identity cards and the attendant...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 - The National Identity Register (5 Jul 2005)

Tim Farron: This is a slightly mischievous point. Would the hon. Gentleman care to speculate on how a Conservative Government might have used an ID card system and its attendant register during the miners’ strike to control the enemy within—a term in which I may have been included?

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 - The National Identity Register (5 Jul 2005)

Tim Farron: I am grateful to the hon. and learned Gentleman for attempting to focus the Government on the case that they themselves make for ID cards and on what they consider the main purpose of the Bill—tackling illegal immigration and terrorism. How do those aims sit with their verbal statement on Second Reading, made principally in response to the probing of the leader of the Democratic...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (28 Jun 2005)

Tim Farron: The opening sentence in the Library briefing on the Bill states: "Identity cards existed in the United Kingdom during the two world wars, but there has been no national scheme since." That innocently sums up why the Bill must not go further in its passage through the House. ID card schemes, if they are to exist at all, are features of times of war and national crisis. This is not a time of...