Identity Cards: Fraud
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Chris Grayling (Shadow Home Secretary, Home Affairs; Epsom & Ewell, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions an identity card has been withdrawn because the application was (a) suspected of having been and (b) found to have been fraudulently made.
Alan Johnson (Home Secretary; Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle, Labour)
Identity cards are issued to foreign nationals after a decision has been made to grant them a period of leave to remain in the UK. No cards have been withdrawn after issue.