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- Business of the House (24 Jan 2008)
John Penrose: Earlier, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) asked the Leader of the House about the progress of the Government's ID card scheme, but may I press the right hon. and learned Lady to take her reply a little further? Her response was that the Government had always planned to phase in the cards, but the whole point about the question posed by my right hon. Friend was that...
- Opposition Day — [6th allotted day]: National Insurance Numbers and Illegal Immigrants (16 Jan 2008) has video
John Penrose: ...faced with a job applicant who says, "I am a British citizen and I do not have a passport" does not have any way of checking whether the applicant has a right to work. I am sorry, but compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals is no solution to the problem, if the person concerned says that they are not a foreign national. That is yet another example to show that the Government's arguments...
- Business of the House (10 Jan 2008) has video
John Penrose: May I press the Leader of the House on her earlier responses to questions about ID cards? In her reply to the shadow Leader of the House, she used the example of including biometric data on passports, which is clearly a narrower and more voluntary system in comparison with the Government's earlier statements on having a mandatory and national ID cards scheme. What we want to find out and what...
- Written Answers — Home Department: Passports (4 May 2006)
John Penrose: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate his Department has made of the costs of replacing lost or damaged biometric chips in passports and ID cards; who will be responsible for these costs; and from what sources funding will be drawn.
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (28 Jun 2005)
John Penrose: Much has been said this evening about the likelihood of cost overruns with a large and complicated Government IT project. My constituents are of the same opinion and are deeply concerned about the possible cost and time overruns. But I also want to speak about a more fundamental principle: civil liberties. There are two pillars that underpin our civil liberties in this country. One of them is...