Meg Hillier writes in Progress Online, advocating the Home Office’s ID Cards Scheme:
There is so much potential for a service which has citizens’ rights at its heart. It can help reach the very people who find it hard to assert their rights now. And the technological possibilities are exciting.
My vision is of an identity service [...]

Julie Henry writes in the Sunday Telegraph:
The Independent Schools Council has drawn up a manifesto demanding that the party that wins the election strips away the unprecedented layers of regulation that have been imposed on the sector.
It will say that the independence of schools is being worn away by Government interference, threatening their successful running [...]

Fiona Barr writes in the online medical magazine EHI Primary Care:
A GP practice in Hampshire has recorded opt-out requests for the Summary Care Record from 20% of its patients.
The Oaklands Practice in Yateley, Hampshire, has run a five year information campaign for its patients on the SCR and pledged not to upload any records without [...]

Mark White writes on the Sky web site about eBorders:
The Government has stated that all passenger traffic will be monitored under the system by 2014, with 95% monitored by the end of this year.
Tim Reardon, from the Chamber of Shipping, represents the ferry companies – who carry more than 20 million passengers in and out [...]

Alex Stevenson writes on the Politics.co.uk web site:
MPs deemed to have committed “crimes against democracy” will be targeted by a new third-party pressure group at the general election.
The Power2010 campaign plans on spending nearly £1 million it has received from the Rowntree Trusts to target constituencies where the sitting MP is judged to have consistently [...]