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ID card spending doubles to £56m
News The new Identity and Passport Service will spend £56m on setting up the controversial ID cards project this year. The IPS was created on 1 April, bringing together the Home Office ID cards programme and the UK Passport Service to issue passports...
[April 25, 2006, 9:30]
ID card database plans expand
News The government says the ID card database will become a national population register of basic personal information for the public sector to verify identity and has called for the development of a children's register as well.
[April 19, 2006, 15:45]
ID card details emerge in bill
News The explanatory notes accompanying the bill quote an estimated £85 fee for a combined passport and ID card when the scheme begins in four years' time. In clauses allowing for the phased introduction of the scheme, ID cards could become compulsory...
[November 30, 2004, 14:25]
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]
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 projects to boom and run late
News Governments are likely to face "cost overrun and system failure" in setting up new identification systems but ID projects will still proliferate, providing business for IT suppliers over the next 10 years, according to a report issued on Tuesday.
[September 29, 2005, 17:55]
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 labelled as human rights threat
Talkback Perhaps the new ID cards would let the Government track exactly where David Blunkett is sleeping at night .and with whom! I'm not surprised that the PM is in favour of this.
[May 18, 2005, 22:11]
ID cards bill back on the table
News The UK government has reintroduced legislation paving the way for its biometric ID cards. Any ID card project would be one of the largest IT projects initiated by the government, with Home Office estimates putting the cost at around £5.5bn, over 10...
[May 25, 2005, 15:25]
ID cards bill rises from the ashes
Talkback One of the big sticking points on ID cards is the ID database the Gov want to keep. Maybe this might help the introduction of the ID Card without a Big Brother database. This has all the hallmarks of Big Brother.
[May 19, 2005, 9:49]
ID Card shenanigans
Talkback Hmm, pay £30 to have my details stored on a National Identity Register, a further £30 for an ID card, on top of the £74 it costs for a passport (plus the additional cost of having it sent securely) AND a potential fine of up to £1,000 for...
[July 8, 2009, 9:43]
ID card-scheme reaches procurement 'milestone'
News The UK's controversial national ID-card programme has taken a big step closer to reality. The IPS predicts total spending on these procurement contracts will be around £2bn — a significant chunk of the ID card scheme's £5.5bn total budget.
[August 10, 2007, 8:59]
ID card scrutiny under threat
News Parliamentary scrutiny of ID cards and other technological and scientific issues could be seriously undermined by the new administration's reorganisation of governmental departments, according to members of a crucial committee.
[July 12, 2007, 16:01]
ID cards still top of Labour's agenda
Talkback Erm, tell me exaclty, what have you got against ID cards? Your wallet has all the information in it that a ID card would - are you against your wallet? I would love using one card instead of my Studen ID, Bank, Donar, Phone etc.
[May 4, 2005, 17:04]
ID cards still top of Labour's agenda
Talkback ID CARDS WILL NOT STOP IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS OR TERRISTS FROM DOING WHAT THEY BELIEVE AS TO BE DONE ID IS FOR THE GOVERMENT AND DHSS ETC IMMIGRATION CAUSED BY OTHERS OF OUR OWN KIND MAKING MONEY . GERMANY COULD NOT STOP US INTHE LAST WAR FROM...
[May 5, 2005, 18:30]
ID card bill to test new government
Talkback Richard Taylor MP [Health Concern, Wyre Forest] hasn't made up his mind up on ID cards. He once asked a straw poll to some electorates and quoted this in his manifesto, "If re-elected I shall take further soundings [on ID cards] before a decision...
[May 9, 2005, 22:48]
ID card bill could reach £30bn
News The cost of an individual ID card could rise to almost £500 due to the cost of integrating the IT infrastructure with other government departments and public sector bodies, according to new figures from the
[November 1, 2005, 9:40]
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 must 'engage consumers' hearts and minds'
News It states: "ID assurance meets a clear and growing consumer need, whereas ID management addresses the interests of the owners of any identity database. Crosby writes that there is a "fundamental" difference between providing individuals with a...
[March 10, 2008, 10:39]
ID card 'chip and PIN' proposal raises security fears
News The government has proposed adding chip-and-PIN capabilities to ID cards, but questions remain over whether such a move would be beneficial — or even possible — at this late stage in the £4.7bn project.
[April 16, 2009, 9:19]
