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ID cards to be compulsory for air workers

...A pilot programme of the government's National Identity Scheme, which covers airside workers, will be compulsory at one of the two participating airports. Airside... Read more

6 November, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Gov't announces airport ID-card trials

...The Home Office has announced the first trials of ID cards for airside workers. ID cards will be trialled at two airports from autumn 2009... Read more

5 November, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Fingerprint checks to begin at UK border controls

...cards by 24 November. The applicants were from Greater Manchester, London and airside workers at Manchester and London City airports. She also said that 2... Read more

30 November, 2009 by Kable

Cost of pilots' ID cards scheme revealed

...scheme, initially intended to make ID cards compulsory among pilots and other airside workers from this year, will now go ahead on a voluntary basis... Read more

24 July, 2009 by Nick Heath

High-street ID card plan won't work, MPs say

...to make the cards compulsory and has recently dropped plans that require airside workers and pilots to have the cards. Retailers were also hoping to... Read more

10 July, 2009 by Nick Heath

Labour MP takes gov't to task over ID scheme

...make ID cards entirely voluntary and scrap trials that would have compelled airside workers and pilots at London City and Manchester airports to carry the... Read more

7 July, 2009 by Nick Heath

Johnson urges haste on foreigner ID cards

...that Johnson has cancelled plans to make the identity card compulsory for airside workers in UK airports, but is encouraging voluntary take-up, especially among... Read more

6 July, 2009 by Kable

Government under fire over ID cards

...be compulsory for British citizens. Plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers and pilots have also been dropped this week by the Home... Read more

2 July, 2009 by Tim Ferguson

Gov't U-turns on compulsory ID cards for pilots

...announced that it will drop plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers. Pilots and other airside workers will not be forced to apply... Read more

30 June, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Manchester rollout for first public ID cards

...receive information on when the cards are available in the area. New airside workers and pilots at Manchester airport will also be required to get... Read more

6 May, 2009 by Nick Heath

Pilots may bring legal challenge against ID card plan

...to be approved by parliament before ID cards can be issued to airside workers and pilots. It comes as the Scottish government supported calls for... Read more

17 February, 2009 by Nick Heath

Government kicks UK when it's down with more ID Card news

Yep - unfortunately it seems that although the country is mortgaged to the hilt, the pound is worth about the same as it... Read more

29 January, 2009

ID cards could replace passports, say gov't officials

...criminal-record-certificate information as part of the National ID Register for airside workers at London City and Manchester airports. As a result, those applying... Read more

24 November, 2008 by Tim Ferguson

Gov't: Most biometric checks will bypass ID database

...implementation. He will have overall responsibility for implementing initiatives including cards for airside workers Read more

19 November, 2008 by Kable

ID Card on track says government

This just in on the ongoing ID Card issue. (BTW Bruce Schneier says we shouldn't get all hot and bothered over ID cards... Read more

6 November, 2008

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