Home Department written question – answered at on 19 July 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of her Department's budget was allocated to the (a) implementation and (b) management of identity cards.
Between 2003 and March 2006, the Home Office spent a total of £41 million developing the policy, legislation and business case for ID cards which represents approximately 0.1% of the Home Office Budget for that period.
The ID Cards Project joined the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) on its establishment in April 2006 and IPS spent a total of £251 million on set-up costs between April 2006 and March 2010, approximately 0.5% of the Home Office Budget for that period.
Approximately £8 million was spent on delivering ID cards from their launch in October 2009 until the decommissioning of the National Identity Scheme (NIS), representing less than 0.1% of the Home Office Budget for that period.
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