ZDnet reports:

The Home Office has not yet decided whether to use the Customer Information System to house data for the identity card scheme.

This followed a media report suggesting its executive agency, the Identity and Passport Service, had scrapped plans to store biographical information on the Department for Work and Pension’s database.

A spokesperson for the Home Office told GC News: “The Identity and Passport Service is currently working with DWP as we develop the National Identity Service. No decision has been made on the solution for the biographical store for the National Identity Register.”

A Home Office spokesperson had earlier told GC News that the IPS had no intention of using the the DWP’s CIS system. “A lot of people seem to think we were going to piggyback on the system, but that was never the case,” said the spokesperson.

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