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Story: Thales wins contract for interim ID card scheme

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Lack of Parliamentary Control

To me this is another example of the Civil Service establishment with but vague ministerial approval introducing a grossly expensive scheme without proper approval in Parliament.
While ministers and their immediate Civil Service subordinates should be permitted to expend public funds on day to day running of the country, introducing such as this is more than routine expenditure and should be submitted to Parliament for approval BEFORE expenditure.
To the Civil Service, expenditure means jobs for civil servants regardless of the state of the country's economy and ability to fund such follies, especially when the opposition who will almost certainly rule in the not too distant future plan to scrap ID cards.
It is time for Parliament to regain it's eroded power and impose it's will on the Government, both political and civil service.

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