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Identity Cards Bill

I have in front of me the remarks the Minister made at Second Reading. She has said again that the estimate of the annual running costs—basically for issuing the passport and the identity card, which is very much the service we have at present—will be £584 million. I understand that. But she has not given us the capital cost of establishing the registry and the whole system registry. Furthermore, at Second Reading she went on to note that there is a range of other services for which charges will be made under Clause 37, and I suspect that she could also have mentioned Clause 38, which deals with consular fees. To get the whole picture, we need to have the total costs for all government departments, which was the question I posed earlier this afternoon.

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Reference

675 c983-4 

Session

2005-06

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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