To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she will publish the report of the Crosby review of identity management.

I have been asked to reply.

Sir James Crosby was appointed to establish and chair the Public Private Forum on Identity Management in July 2006 with a remit to produce a preliminary report to Ministers by Easter 2007. In March 2007 he discussed his preliminary conclusions with the then Chancellor of the Exchequer and was invited to work with the forum to produce a fuller report later in the year. The report is now being finalised. No date has been fixed for publication