Paul Routledge writes in the Daily Mirror:
Foreigners living in Britain who don’t buy a new biometric ID card by November will be fined, thrown out, or jailed.
If they don’t get fingerprinted and iris-scanned they’ll be fined £250, rising to £1,000 for further offences. Expulsion from the UK is the next level of punishment.
This regime will [...]

Geraint Bevan writes in the letters column of the Glasgow Herald:
Giving evidence to the (House of Commons) Home Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Meg Hillier, Minister for ID cards, said we should see the cards as “passports in-country”.
Such candour from a Home Office minister makes a refreshing change from the usual spin and deception. Perhaps in [...]

Nick Heath writes on the ZDnet web site:
In the latest government ID-card plans, people will face fines of up to £1,000 for skipping biometric scans.
Penalties ranging from £125 for not notifying the government of the loss of an ID card to £250 for not applying for a card or missing an appointment for fingerprint and [...]

Andrew Watson writes in the letters page of the Financial Times:
Meg Hillier, the Home Office minister, cites preventing identity fraud as the main reason for the proposed National Identity Scheme (Letters, February 22), yet her department seems incapable of understanding what identity fraud is, let alone devising solutions to it.
The Home Office claims that the [...]

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