MPs urge Nasa hacker clemency
News Keith Vaz, the chair of the the Home Affairs Select Committee, sent a letter to Johnson on Thursday asking him to halt the extradition of McKinnnon to the US to face hacking charges. On Thursday the Home Affairs Select Committee disagreed with...
[November 12, 2009, 17:44]
Home secretary considers Nasa hacker plea
News On Tuesday Johnson told the Home Affairs Select Committee, an influential parliamentary scrutiny body, that he would be able to intervene in the case if evidence of McKinnon's psychiatric condition showed that extradition would infringe his human...
[November 11, 2009, 12:25]
Passport fee rise linked to ID cards
News The home secretary, David Blunkett, revealed the costings for the controversial scheme to MPs at a Home Affairs Select Committee hearing yesterday. Following Blunkett's response last week to criticisms of the scheme by the Home Affairs Select...
[November 3, 2004, 14:48]
ID cards 'alarm' information commissioner
News Thomas heavily criticised the proposals covering cards and an identity register at a home affairs select committee hearing. Speaking to the cross-party home affairs select committee yesterday, Thomas said that tackling illegal working and organised...
[June 9, 2004, 13:55]
ID cards bill scrapes through
News John Denham, a former home office minister and chair of the Commons home affairs select committee, said that key financial details should be available. Along with the amendment, the Liberal Democrats' attempt to refer the bill back to a select...
[October 20, 2005, 10:05]
Committee urges gov't database prudence
News The government should vow to collect only essential data on people and hold it only for as long as is necessary, the Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended. The committee says decisions to create new databases, to start sharing data or to...
[June 9, 2008, 8:31]
ID card bill changes praised
News The Home Office has improved its plans for compulsory identity cards, according to Parliament's home affairs select committee. On the same day, the committee's Labour chairman, former home office minister John Denham, said he saw this as "a very...
[October 28, 2004, 16:44]
Gov't defends data-sharing policy
News The Home Office made the claim in an official response to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee's A Surveillance Society? On the committee's recommendation that government should "curb the drive to collect more personal information and...
[July 24, 2008, 11:38]
MPs slam UK ID card proposal
News According to the report by the Home Affairs Select Committee, the government has not adequately looked into alternative technologies that would be more appropriate for an ID card system. Steve Price-Francis, the vice-president of biometric card...
[July 30, 2004, 13:15]
Chris Patten: Politicians have no grasp of technology
News Davies said that government should pay more attention to select committees, such as the Science and Technology Committee and the Home Affairs Committee, before formulating legislation. Prime ministers and home secretaries are notorious for...
[October 26, 2006, 16:40]
Government starts building ID card database
News All of the people on the register are UK nationals, bar one, he told the home affairs select committee on Tuesday. The database went live on 20 October, and it is being populated with the data of people who either have an ID card or have applied...
[November 25, 2009, 13:34]
ID cards set back by equipment failure
News But at a Home Affairs select committee this week, Blunkett and the UKPS admitted that the system that Atos Origin initially delivered was hit by problems and had to be sent back to the firm after a few weeks.
[May 6, 2004, 12:25]
Employers say ID-card plans 'too vague'
News The CBI's concerns echo information commissioner Richard Thomas's evidence to the home affairs select committee in June. Responding to the Home Office's consultation on the ID plans, the CBI said that if the scheme is to be effective, businesses...
[August 13, 2004, 14:35]
Lib Dems set up Commission on Privacy
Blog Heath spoke to ZDNet UK at a Commons Select Committee hearing into the work of the Information Commissioner on Tuesday. The other members of the Commission are: Baroness Sue Miller, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson in the House of...
[January 14, 2009, 10:45]
Tories join ID card opponents
News David Cameron MP added that when officials came with technology to present their case to the Home Affairs Select Committee it didn't work. The public services should offer "serious protection" of every individual's privacy, the shadow home...
[May 20, 2004, 12:10]
Government attacked over broadband commitments
News Tom Steinberg a researcher at the Institute of Economic Affairs, also gave evidence at the select committee. MPs sitting on the Department of Media, Culture and Sport select committee have accused the government of failing to take account of...
[March 16, 2001, 12:13]
All police employees to get ContactPoint access
News Beverley Hughes, the children's minister, released a list of the job positions that will have access to the ContactPoint system on Wednesday, in a written parliamentary answer to Keith Vaz, the Labour chair of the home affairs select committee.
[November 10, 2008, 10:26]
Information Commissioner to demand greater powers
Blog Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee is currently conducting an investigation into Britain's surveillance society. Richard Thomas is going to ask Parliament that he be given the power to force organisations to submit to inspections and audits...
[May 1, 2007, 17:05]
Businesses warned of profiling dangers
News Thomas, speaking to ZDNet UK at the e-Crime Congress in London, gave a preview of the evidence that his office intends to present to a Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into surveillance. Businesses and police have been warned of the dangers of...
[March 28, 2007, 17:26]
Broadband's inspectors sport varied track records
News The Trade and Industry select committee launched its investigation into the UK's broadband market last week. Several MPs, including Sir George Young, Richard Allan, Brian White and Derek Wyatt, have played a key role in parliamentary debates -- but...
[September 16, 2003, 18:30]
