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ID cards chief dismisses U-turn claims
News The head of Britain's ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government's revised ID-card plans in the face of allegations of a U-turn, after the project was scaled back. It also emerged that employers at so-called...
[March 11, 2008, 8:02]
ID cards scheme has cost nearly £50m
News The Government has revealed it has spent almost £50m on the controversial ID cards scheme before the project is even off the ground. In a written answer to a parliamentary question by Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Öpik, the Home Office said £46.4m had...
[August 18, 2006, 17:20]
ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically'
News Representatives of the aviation industry have said they are being used as political pawns to further the government's ID cards programme. ID cards for 'airside' workers — those who work beyond airport security checks — will become compulsory in 2009.
[July 4, 2008, 16:59]
ID cards extended to north-west of England
News ID cards are to be offered to people living across the north-west of England from next month. For more on this story, see ID cards now coming to North West of England on silicon.com. People living in Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside...
[December 17, 2009, 7:30]
ID cards to cost over £5.6bn
News The UK's ID cards scheme will cost more than £5.6bn to set up and run over the next 10 years, according to the latest Home Office figures. A £5.43bn price tag covers the total resource costs of providing both e-passports and ID cards to British and...
[November 12, 2007, 7:24]
ID cards for foreign nationals unveiled
News The Home Office unveiled ID cards for foreign nationals on Thursday, attracting protests from opposition parties and campaigners. The ID cards, which will be compulsory for foreign nationals from outside the European Economic Area, will be phased...
[September 25, 2008, 18:14]
ID cards bill savaged by Lords and MPs
News The chairman of the committee, Lord Holme of Cheltenham, said the ID cards bill "fundamentally" alters the relationship between citizens and the state and called for tougher safeguards. He said in the report: "The Committee firmly rejects...
[October 25, 2005, 9:50]
ID cards 'were oversold'
News The UK government has admitted that it exaggerated the benefits of ID cards by claiming they would be a panacea for identity theft, benefit fraud and terrorism. McNulty refused to apologise for overselling the benefits of ID cards but admitted they...
[August 4, 2005, 14:50]
ID cards chief casts doubt on scheme security
News The chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service has said the ID cards database will not be completely secure. Campaigners against ID cards said it was "no surprise" that the government would not be able to safeguard citizen data in the...
[July 4, 2008, 12:07]
ID cards 'very much on the political agenda'
News The terrorist threat to the UK will lead to ID cards being introduced "more quickly than even we anticipated", according to the prime minister, Tony Blair. Blair's comments at his monthly briefing to journalists follow on from the "route map" to ID...
[April 2, 2004, 16:20]
Tories: ID cards need 28m sign-ups to break even
News Half the UK population will need to sign up for ID cards for the scheme to become self-financing, according to the Conservative Party. However, on Monday the Conservatives said they had collated available government figures to calculate that ID...
[October 27, 2009, 16:27]
ID cards campaigners aren't giving up
News If the ID card bill does pass into law, the first cards should be issued in 2008. That would be a different phase of the campaign," said Booth, implying that opposition to ID cards could continue for years.
[February 10, 2006, 10:00]
ID cards unveiled in Queen's Speech
News Legislation for national ID cards and the UK's version of the FBI were the key planks of the Queen's Speech today, which promised "security for all". The ID card scheme proposed by the Home Office will see the introduction of a standalone ID card...
[November 23, 2004, 14:40]
ID Cards: A Titanic project waiting for its iceberg
News The controversy around ID Cards raged on this week with the rejection of the ID card bill by the House of Lords. How do you feel about using ID cards for both authentication and to establish identity?
[January 18, 2006, 11:25]
ID cards brought forward for some immigrants
News Compulsory ID cards for certain foreign nationals have been brought forward, according to a Home Office announcement. Privacy campaigner Guy Herbert, who is general secretary of the No2ID group, said on Wednesday that the government was already...
[January 6, 2010, 14:37]
ID cards 'taking focus away from e-crime'
News The government is ploughing too many resources into the ID cards scheme while failing to fight e-crime, a member of the House of Lords has claimed. Lord Erroll today said plans to roll out ID cards in the UK have been promoted by the government as...
[April 25, 2006, 15:50]
ID cards labelled as human rights threat
News Among its concerns is that some of the information held by the government's registry for ID cards may not "serve a legitimate aim or be proportional to that aim". The Committee also believes that ID cards could become "effectively compulsory" for...
[February 3, 2005, 14:25]
ID cards bill passes second Commons reading
News The government's majority was slashed by more than half at the ID cards bill vote in parliament on Tuesday, despite Home Secretary Charles Clarke promising a range of concessions in order to stave off a full-scale backbench Labour rebellion.
[June 29, 2005, 16:15]
ID cards could replace passports, say gov't officials
News UK citizens will be able to use their ID cards to travel to Europe, raising the possibility that they could eventually replace passports, according to the Identity and Passport Service. Speaking on Friday at the Home Office, Identity and Passport...
[November 24, 2008, 7:39]
ID cards bill rises from the ashes
News Tony Blair will reintroduce the national ID cards bill in the Queen's Speech on Tuesday but a senior government official has admitted that concessions will have to be made to ensure its passage through parliament.
[May 16, 2005, 17:40]
