Home Department written question – answered at on 18 January 2006.
Oliver Heald
Shadow Secretary of State (Justice), Shadow Secretary of State
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the planned identity card database will use council tax information held by (a) local authorities and (b) the Valuation Office Agency.
Andy Burnham
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Currently, the identity cards programme does not anticipate that any council tax information held by either local authorities or the Valuation Office Agency will be used as part of the identity cards scheme.
Clause 11 of the Identity Cards Bill does provide for the ability of the Identity Cards scheme to check information provided by an individual for the purpose of being recorded on the National Identity Register against records held on other public sector databases. However, use of such information would require the specific approval of Parliament by affirmative order.
Yes1 person thinks so
No2 people think not
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