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Identity Cards Act 2006 (Information and Code of Practice on Penalties) Order 2009 — Motion to Approve (13 Jul 2009)

The Earl of Northesk: My Lords, I have it in mind that the latest cost summary projected over the 10-year period from when it was issued is that 95 million ID cards would be issued. That projection is whatever that projection is, but it is something like half as much again of the population of the UK. Therefore, what faith can we have in costs if they are based on a scenario where one and a half times the...

Identity Cards Act 2006 (Information and Code of Practice on Penalties) Order 2009 — Motion to Approve (13 Jul 2009)

The Earl of Northesk: My Lords, I declare an interest as an unpaid adviser to the Enterprise Privacy Group, Privacy International and 80/20 Thinking. I have little to add to what has already been said but I invite the Minister to comment on three points. First, can he confirm that the ITAO standard requires no more than a digitised impression of a biometric fingerprint—that is to say, that the whole of the...

Identity Scheme: Non-listed Residents (25 Jun 2007)

The Earl of Northesk: My Lords, will the Minister clarify his earlier comment that the ID card will be a passport to services? I understood that that had been categorically excluded from the legislation.

NHS (7 Dec 2006)

The Earl of Northesk: ...that a required, even essential, outcome of reform is improved focus on the needs of the user—that is, the patient. Indeed, NHS Connecting for Health appears to accept this dictum. Its guide to the national programme states: "The new era dawning for the NHS involves modern, sophisticated IT which will provide solutions to the problems that have dogged the NHS for years. In tandem...

Identity Cards Bill (6 Feb 2006)

The Earl of Northesk: ...to say, therefore, I support it. My noble friend is quite right to draw our attention to the decision of the Comptroller and Auditor General not to endorse the Home Office's accounts. As he said, this demonstrates how little faith we can have in its ability to deliver the ID card project, either technologically or within budget. The case that he made is deeply persuasive, and I need not...

Identity Cards Bill (30 Jan 2006)

The Earl of Northesk: ...last year, setting out four "ambitious targets" for European e-government by 2010. Item four of those targets calls on member states to work towards, "the mutual recognition of national electronic identities by testing, piloting and implementing suitable technologies and methods". It could be interpreted that under the UK presidency we have signed up for a pan-European ID card by 2010.

Identity Cards Bill (30 Jan 2006)

The Earl of Northesk: ..., my aim here has always been to offer assistance to the Government. I was particularly struck by the comments made by my noble friends Lady Anelay and Lord Crickhowell. They both correctly identified the utility of giving the public—those on whom the ID cards scheme will primarily impact—clear, concise and transparent information about their data. That can only engender better...

Identity Cards Bill (30 Jan 2006)

The Earl of Northesk: ...the issue today, although happily I need not weary the House with a detailed explanation of its purpose, which is straightforward: namely, to propose that the Secretary of State draw up statutory guidelines in respect of the information disclosure provisions of the Bill, with the intention that these be enforceable in law. I have been consistent in my pessimism about the Government...

Identity Cards Bill (16 Jan 2006)

The Earl of Northesk: ...A child can be 50 years old—that is the way in which mental disablement works. There is a serious issue involved here and I hope that the Government address properly that issue in respect of ID cards.

Identity Cards Bill (16 Jan 2006)

The Earl of Northesk: My Lords, perhaps the noble Baroness can satisfy my curiosity. At which traffic light, during the various stages, has the ID card been subject to review, and which traffic light has it been given for each of its stages, and which current stage has it just passed?

Identity Cards Bill (16 Jan 2006)

The Earl of Northesk: ...magazine Computer Weekly, have resorted to the Freedom of Information Act to elicit information about the status of a variety of IT procurement projects across government. So far as I am aware, the identity cards project is one of the few projects, if not the only one, where the relevant information has not been forthcoming. As your Lordships will be aware, the whole point of the gateway...

Identity Cards Bill (14 Dec 2005)

The Earl of Northesk: My noble friend's amendment undoubtedly has considerable potentially beneficial effects. Nevertheless, I would counsel a degree of caution. If we think back to the previous incarnation of ID cards in this country, one of the great criticisms that they attracted in the end was that they were subject to a great deal of function creep. With my noble friend's amendment, we potentially run the...

Identity Cards Bill (14 Dec 2005)

The Earl of Northesk: moved Amendment No. 176: Page 11, line 41, at end insert— "( ) Where an ID card has been cancelled under subsection (2)(a) to (d) and that cancellation has not been occasioned as a result of any action on the part of the individual to whom it was issued, it shall be the responsibility of the Secretary of State to issue an amended replacement card free of charge."

Identity Cards Bill (14 Dec 2005)

The Earl of Northesk: As the drafting of the clause stands, the Bill seems to confer liability for an ID card becoming invalid wholly and exclusively upon the individual to whom it has been issued. Yet it is conceivable that in the circumstances defined by the relevant subsections, the individual may not have been responsible for this in any way whatsoever as a result of, say, bureaucratic error or a reader...

Identity Cards Bill (14 Dec 2005)

The Earl of Northesk: ...in this group. My purpose here is to delete paragraph (b) of Clause 8(3) via Amendment No. 143 and substitute it with the text of Amendment No. 142. At first blush, this might strike one as an idiotic thing to do. After all, it is to be supposed that a principal motivation in having encrypted data on the actual ID card is to provide appropriate protections against the possibility of it...

Identity Cards Bill (12 Dec 2005)

The Earl of Northesk: Will the noble Baroness comment on the observation that I made about the ministerial decision made last month under the UK presidency? It is important to get a finger on the pulse of this matter. As I understand it, the ministerial decision categorically approved a pan-European basis for the ID card. I absolutely understand the argument that it is not a legal commitment; none the less, the...

Identity Cards Bill (12 Dec 2005)

The Earl of Northesk: ...friend Lord Caithness, I do wonder whether subsection (3) of the amendment now has any relevance. As I understand it, and I hope the noble Baroness will be able to confirm this, under the UK presidency what actually happened last month is that a ministerial decision was approved, and that ministerial decision stated categorically that, come 2010, all member states were committed to...

Identity Cards Bill (12 Dec 2005)

The Earl of Northesk: moved Amendment No. 134: Page 6, line 20, at end insert "; and ( ) an appropriate review of the operation of the voluntary ID card scheme has been conducted under the auspices of the National Identity Scheme Commissioner and reported to Parliament."

Identity Cards Bill (12 Dec 2005)

The Earl of Northesk: ...the deletion of the words, "to attend at a specified place and time", from Clauses 5 and 12 respectively. In our earlier debates, it was established via the text in Clause 1(3)(a) that the national identity register and its associated ID cards are intended to provide a convenient method whereby individuals can prove their identity. As the Minister commented, the utility of the word...

Identity Cards Bill (23 Nov 2005)

The Earl of Northesk: ...to all noble Lords who have contributed to this short debate. My noble friend Lord Crickhowell has put his finger on the pulse of why we are concerned about this. The provision is exceedingly wide. That said, I fully understand the desire of the Government to have flexibility. Indeed, I find the desire and need for flexibility eminently sensible. Here, too, however, the noble Lord, Lord...