Gov't U-turns on compulsory ID cards for pilots
News The government has 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 for or carry the cards, the Home Office said in a statement on Tuesday.
[June 30, 2009, 17:44]
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News 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 workers will be forced to enrol onto the scheme at London City Airport, the Home...
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
Gov't announces airport ID-card trials
News The Home Office has announced the first trials of ID cards for airside workers. Airside workers will not be expected to pay for their cards, said the Home Office. James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, said: "Confirming...
[November 5, 2008, 17:17]
Contract of Employment
Talkback Where in the airside workers' contract of employment does it say they need an ID card to do their jobs? This is aside from the fact that the replacement of their existing security provisions with this dead end scheme would actually reduce the level...
[February 20, 2009, 12:28]
When spin becomes downright untruth
Talkback ID cards will not bring benefits to airside workers. All airside workes have already been vetted to far greater a depth than would be done with an ID card, so for current workers there is no benefit. It may speed up the vetting process if the...
[February 18, 2009, 9:16]
ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically'
News ID cards for 'airside' workers — those who work beyond airport security checks — will become compulsory in 2009. The vetting of people with secure airside access will go way beyond the ID card checks," said Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of No2ID.
[July 4, 2008, 16:59]
Pilots may bring legal challenge against ID card plan
News The consultation is on the Identity Cards Act Secondary Legislation that will need to be approved by parliament before ID cards can be issued to airside workers and pilots. Identity cards will directly benefit airside workers — not just by...
[February 17, 2009, 7:39]
ID Card on track says government
Blog Since the Government announced in March that airside workers would be amongst the first to be issued with identity cards, we have engaged in the consultation to maximise the benefits both to the aviation industry and its employees and we have...
[November 6, 2008, 13:03]
Government kicks UK when it's down with more ID Card news
Blog Starting in autumn this year the first identity cards for airside workers will be issued at Manchester and London City airports, which have agreed to take part in an 18 month evaluation of the benefits the Service will bring the aviation industry.
[January 29, 2009, 16:07]
ID cards could replace passports, say gov't officials
News The secondary legislation includes a proposal to designate criminal-record-certificate information as part of the National ID Register for airside workers at London City and Manchester airports. From autumn 2009, airside workers at the two airports...
[November 24, 2008, 7:39]
Cost of pilots' ID cards scheme revealed
News The 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 after being scaled back by home secretary Alan Johnson earlier this month in the face of...
[July 24, 2009, 8:34]
Government under fire over ID cards
News Plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers and pilots have also been dropped this week by the Home Office, with trials planned for Manchester and London City airports both scrapped. The government has been critisised over its decision to...
[July 2, 2009, 9:14]
High-street ID card plan won't work, MPs say
News This is the latest blow to hit the ID card project; the government has already announced it does not plan to make the cards compulsory and has recently dropped plans that require airside workers and pilots to have the cards.
[July 10, 2009, 11:31]
Labour MP takes gov't to task over ID scheme
News The debate follows the home secretary's decision last week to 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 cards — a move widely seen as...
[July 7, 2009, 17:01]
Johnson urges haste on foreigner ID cards
News Last week it was reported 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 young people as a proof of age.
[July 6, 2009, 8:38]
Manchester rollout for first public ID cards
News New airside workers and pilots at Manchester airport will also be required to get an ID card before starting their job from autumn. Manchester will be the first place in the UK where the public can apply for an ID card.
[May 6, 2009, 11:32]
Gov't: Most biometric checks will bypass ID database
News He will have overall responsibility for implementing initiatives including cards for airside workers. Identity checks will normally rely on the biometric data held on ID cards and passports rather than the National Identity Register, according to...
[November 19, 2008, 15:41]
Wow !
Talkback Time and again we are told by senior security service officers, police officers, security theory academics and now the airline industry as well that this system will not work as presented and will certainly not improve on the systems they already...
[July 7, 2008, 18:21]
