Contractor UK, said to be the UK’s most visited IT Contractor Site, reports:
Tony Blair’s bid to equip each Briton with an identity card has suffered a setback following new analysis that casts doubt on the information technology proposed to run the scheme.
The left of centre group Corporate Watch says critics’ preoccupation with civil liberties, effectiveness [...]
As the dust settles after the Lords’ costing amendment, a Guardian leader sums up the situation nicely:
While Westminster obsesses over Ruth Kelly’s survival battle and weighs the consequences for Tony Blair’s schools reform plans next month, away from the spotlight the government is already shipping water on another of its flagship bills. The identity cards [...]
Happily, there’s plenty of coverage of the thrashing the Lords gave the ID Cards Bill yesterday. As usual, John Lettice in The Register has one of the best summaries:
Peers last night voted by 237 to 156 for an amendment delaying the implementation of the ID Cards Bill until a full account of the costs [...]
The Mail on Sunday reports on a possible move by the House of Lords to have costs for the Home Office proposals independently audited, and also on the latest revision to the LSE ID cards report:
Tony Blair faces the risk of a crushing defeat tomorrow over his plan to introduce ID cards after reports [...]
In a surprising announcement, DTI head of applications and data services Patrick Cooper suggested it would be more cost efficient to issue everyone in the UK with an iPod than ID cards. Perhaps this announcement can help us work out what government insiders assume to be the cost of issuing the cards alone.
Cooper suggests iPods [...]
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