ePolitix.com reports on home affairs questions in the Commons on Monday 17th July, when Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs vigorously attacked the ID cards scheme:
The Conservatives have attacked the government’s plans for identity cards, saying they could increase the risk of identity theft.
Shadow home secretary David Davis told MPs on Monday that ministers had exaggerated [...]
In Not delayed, not sleeping, dead – UK ID card scheme goes under, John Lettice speculates that behind the current hoohah of delays and incremental roll-outs the governments ID scheme is actually a goner.
Don’t forget however that the legislation is still in place.
Whether the cards go, or the mass plans for registration go, [...]
James Kirkup writes in The Scotsman:
Identity cards have not been included in the government’s definitive account of Britain’s counter-terrorism strategy, fuelling speculation that Tony Blair’s controversial scheme is in serious trouble.
The Home Office’s Countering International Terrorism: The United Kingdom’s Strategy report released this week lists all of the ways the government is responding to threat [...]
The BBC reports that:
The process of putting contracts to establish the scheme out to tender – which software suppliers expected in March – has been put back indefinitely.
The government is however saying:
We set a timetable for when ID cards would be introduced and that might change.
It seems this is all down to John Reid’s review [...]
David Leppard writes in the Sunday Times:
Tony Blair’s flagship identity cards scheme is set to fail and may not be introduced for a generation, according to leaked Whitehall e-mails from the senior officials responsible for the multi-billion-pound project.
The problems are so serious that ministers have been forced to draw up plans for a scaled-down “face-saving” [...]
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