Home Department written question – answered at on 25 June 2007.
David Davis
Shadow Secretary of State (Home Office)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 27 November 2006, Official Report, columns 390-2W, on identity cards, what the value was of each contract; what other contracts his Department has signed with external organisations on the (a) identity cards project and (b) National Identity Register; and what the value was of each additional contract.
John Reid
Home Secretary, The Secretary of State for the Home Department
The following table details the external organisations to which the Home Office Identity Cards Programme let contracts or made payments between the financial years 2004-05 and 2005-06.
| £ | ||
| Company | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Sirius consortium (Fujitsu Services Ltd and Global Crossing Ltd and PWC) | 184,000 | — |
| SchlumbergerSema (Atos Origin) | 56,000 | — |
| Atos Origin IT Services UK Ltd | 1,079,000 | — |
| Shreeveport Management Consultancy | 43,000 | — |
| Axon Group Plc | 29,000 | — |
| Cornwell Management Consultants plc | 48,000 | — |
| PA Consulting (and within this contract, Electronic Commerce Associates Ltd.) | 7,710,000 | 20,690,000 |
| CESG Communications Electronic Security Group | 7,000 | 133,000 |
| Partnerships UK | 24,000 | 69,000 |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse | 309,000 | 862,000 |
| Office of Government Commerce | 12,000 | — |
| Interleader Ltd | — | 2,000 |
| Veredus London | — | 135,000 |
| The Metropolitan Police | — | 35,000 |
| KPMG | — | 90,000 |
| Ernst and Young | — | 111,000 |
| Sigma | — | 37,000 |
| Abbey Consulting | — | 4,000 |
| Whitehead Mann Ltd | — | 17,000 |
| Alan Hughes | — | 16,000 |
| Excel Recruitment | — | 20,000 |
Since the merger of the Home Office Identity Cards Programme and the UK Passport Service to create the Identity and Passport Service on
As a result, much of the work conducted by Identity and Passport Service cannot be categorised, both financially and operationally, as contributing towards either the introduction of biometric passports or identity cards alone. The work is accounted for as future development projects.
Equally, contracts with external organisations are signed on the basis of providing services to project or activities which can apply to both existing passport operational business as well as the future development of biometric passports, identity cards and future improvements. As a result, a breakdown of payments made to such organisations for the purposes of the development of identity cards or the National Identity Register in the financial year 2006-07 cannot be provided.
However, the following provides a list of external organisations from which the Identity and Passport Service has obtained either consulting services and/or contracted staff in the financial year 2006-07 and the level of payment which has been attributed to the future development of both biometric passports, identity cards and associated improvements in that financial year. The list excludes payments attributed to organisations providing legal and professional services.
Even without the introduction of identity cards, a significant proportion of this expenditure would have been required in order to prepare for the introduction of second biometric passports. Overall, it is estimated that around 70 per cent. of the total cost of the scheme would need to be incurred in order to introduce the second biometric passport incorporating fingerprint biometrics.
Between £5 million and £10 million:
Between £1 million and £5 million:
Capita Resourcing
Between £500,000 and £1 million:
Parity Resources
Glotel Technology Working
Between £50,000 and £500,000:
Adecco UK Ltd
Allen Lane
ASE Consulting Ltd
Capita Interim Management
CESG (Communications Electronics Security Group)
Chamberlain Beaumont
Computer People
Crystal UK Ltd
Elan Computing Ltd
Electronic Computer Associates (novated from PA Consulting contract)
Hays Accounting
Hedra Ltd
Hudson Global Resources Ltd
Kelly Services
KPMG
Logica CMC
Methods Consulting
Montpelier Contracting and Consulting
Northern Recruitment Group plc
OGC Accounting Service
Pendragon Information Systems
Real-Time Consultants plc
Ruillion Computer
Sand Resources
Search Total Recruitment Solutions
Security Printing Systems Ltd
Shreeveport Ltd
Spring Technology
TAG TPS Ltd
The Nesco Group
Veredus
Under £50,000:
Alan Hughes
Angela Mortimer plc
Anite Public Sector
Atos Origin IT Services Ltd
Beamans Ltd
British Print Industries Federation
Brook Street
Buchanan and Darby Associates
Callcredit plc
CE Williams
Centre for Accessibility
Diane Bailey Associates
Donaldson's
Drivers Jonas
ER Consultants
Equifax Ltd
Excel Recruitment
Home Office Cashiers
Ian Farrand HR Management Consultants
Ideas UK
Identix Ltd
Immediate Interns
Insight Consulting
Josephine Sammons Ltd
Kingston Communications plc.
Lambert Smith Hampton
Manpower UK Ltd
Michael Page UK Ltd
Minority Matters Recruitment
McCrindle Associates Ltd
OCS
Officeforce Ltd
Parity Training Ltd
Partnerships UK
PicnicBox
Procurement Services Ltd
QDOS Computer Consultants
Q1 Consulting
Reed Accounting Personnel
Resource Analysts Ltd
RNA Ltd
Robert Walters
Security Services Group
SGS UK Ltd
Siemens Business Services
Sigma
St. John's Ambulance Services
Step Ahead
Streamline Financial Solutions
Telelogic UK Ltd
TK Cobley
The Whelan Partnership
The Whitehall and Industry Group
Turner and Townsend Project Management Ltd
White Young
Yale Data Management Consultant Ltd
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Alix Cull
Posted on 27 Jun 2007 3:50 pm (Report this annotation)
The B.B.C. has shown how easy it is to change identity. How would this be overcome by the issue of identity cards, and how much difficulty would it raise for peoople with certain disabilities?