Identity Cards
Home Department
Paul Burstow (Chief Whip; Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost has been of the identity card scheme.
Joan Ryan (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Enfield North, Labour)
Some £58 million has been spent on the identity cards scheme since the start of the 2003-04 financial year and up to the end of September 2006.