Identity Cards
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 25 February 2008
Alistair Carmichael (Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Affairs; Orkney & Shetland, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criteria the Government will use to determine whether an identity card is to be required in order for a public service to be provided.
Meg Hillier (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Identity), Home Office; Hackney South & Shoreditch, Labour)
Identity cards will provide the most reliable and convenient method of proving identity and will help in the more efficient delivery of public services.
However, there are no plans at this stage to make the delivery of particular public services dependent on the production of an identity card.