Results 1-12 of 12 for id cards speaker:Stewart Hosie

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the law (22 Apr 2009)

Stewart Hosie: ...fuel duty regulator to deal with the spike when it happens next year, the year after that or the year after that. Instead, there seems to be simply another attempt to bring in more cash. In the middle of it all, however, are the proposals for £15 billion of cuts. I think the Chancellor described that as fiscal tightening. Others have described it as efficiency. It is most certainly...

Orders of the Day: UK Borders Bill (5 Feb 2007)

Stewart Hosie: ...when he explained earlier that that was not the case. However, when one reads the words in the Bill, there appears to be the potential at least—particularly if regulations are drafted widely rather than tightly—for that to be a real fear. Perversely, the issue of a Government biometric ID card may be seen by some as validating a false identity. As I have said in previous...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Cards (4 Dec 2006)

Stewart Hosie: ..., the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, the hon. Member for Enfield, North (Joan Ryan), gave me a written answer saying that no costs had been calculated for the deployment of ID cards in the private sector—indeed, all the cost estimates so far have been only in respect of the Home Office. Is any quotation of possible savings from the introduction of ID cards not...

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

Stewart Hosie: I shall be as brief as I can. I thought that the Home Secretary's remarks were instructive when he suggested that the use of intercept evidence was not a silver bullet. I am not aware that anyone who has called for the use of intercept evidence has suggested that it was. He went on to say that other robust decisions would have to be made, and he mentioned detention. I suspect that he meant an...

Identity Cards Bill (29 Mar 2006)

Stewart Hosie: I will be brief. There is no real compromise in the amendments for UK citizens. They do not change the compulsory inclusion on the central biometric database, merely the carrying of an identity card. Although there is a time-limited opt-out in the amendments, that is only for carrying the card and that time limit ends prior to the last date possible for the next general election. That is...

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

Stewart Hosie: There are two constantly repeated assertions with regard to the compulsory ID card system. The first is that the Government planned all along to deliver a compulsory ID card scheme from the start. The second is that this ID card scheme is required in order for the Government to meet their international obligations. I should like briefly to question those assertions. The Swedish Government...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Stewart Hosie: ...because it determines whether the Bill is a proportionate response to the problem. I have no doubt that the figure of £1.7 billion was put in the public domain to give the impression that when the ID card system was fully deployed in the public and private sectors, a problem of such magnitude could be resolved, but I question that assertion. I also wish to focus on the fraud because...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Stewart Hosie: ...and the citizen will gain if the new system is introduced. I have paused, but the Minister is staying shtum—that is okay. The list goes on. The Finance and Leasing Association estimates that "identity fraud arising from the provision of motor finance" costs £14 million. Does the Minister seriously expect an identity card system to stop that sort of fraud? Does he expect every...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 6 — Power of the Secretary of State to require registration (13 Feb 2006)

Stewart Hosie: If the Minister is correct and an ID card will not be required to obtain a driving licence, why does the Government's figure of £1.7 billion of identity fraud include the costs of such crime for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency? If ID cards are meant to solve such fraud, surely the hon. Member for Coventry, South (Mr. Cunningham) is right and an ID card would be required to...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 43 — General Interpretation (18 Oct 2005)

Stewart Hosie: ...access to public services; to prohibit unauthorised working, and to enhance immigration control. The key unanswered question is about terrorists who currently come here with fake, forged or stolen identities that are sufficiently robust for them to be allowed access. If they come here in future, such robust false identities will be turned into genuine ones by the allocation of an identity...

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

Stewart Hosie: I have listened to the whole debate. I listened particularly carefully to the Home Secretary. He laid out five sections in his speech, including Big Brother society, the costs, the benefits, and the success or otherwise of IT projects. What he failed to do, other than in passing in the section on benefits, was to address the justifications in the Bill—national security, the prevention...

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

Stewart Hosie: A number of IT projects and databases need to be cleaned up. I am not sure about the figures— the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Lynne Jones) has said that the national insurance issue is being addressed—but the evidence does not suggest that the central data register for ID cards will be more accurate than the national insurance register. I have mentioned people entering...