The Sunday Herald leader-writer comments on the implications of the HMRC data loss:
Yet when asked if this fiasco effectively ends plans for identity cards, government ministers say no, still holding to a misplaced belief that ID cards will help make Britain safer. This is a contempt-ridden response. All politicians should be judged on their record. [...]
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett defends his ID cards scheme in the letters page of the Times:
The BBC reported on Wednesday that a “minister” had said that ID cards could not survive this debacle. Of course, a clean and therefore robust biometric identity base is not the issue here. This is simply a diversion by [...]
Philip Johnston writes in the Daily Telegraph:
The future of Labour’s identity card project was increasingly in doubt yesterday as MPs called for the scheme to be scrapped following the loss of the child benefit records.
Even Labour MPs were questioning how Gordon Brown could proceed with the multi-billion pound scheme.
John McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington, [...]
The Child Benefit data loss is all over the front pages this morning, and some of the articles also explicitly refer to the implications for the ID card scheme.
Philip Johnston writes in the Daily Telegraph:
MPs have questioned how the Government could be entrusted with the details of every adult in the land when it [...]
The BBC reports:
Alistair Darling has blamed mistakes by junior officials at HM Revenue and Customs after details of 25 million child benefit recipients were lost.
The Chancellor said information, including bank details of 7m families, had been sent on discs to the National Audit office by unrecorded delivery.
The discs had never arrived at their destination, Mr [...]
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