Identity Cards Bill

It is easy to explain; I do not think that the noble Lord should imagine that it is complicated. As a matter of course, data will be captured by the system, which is the enrolment phase. What will then happen, from what the noble Lord said in response to the amendment, is that there will be a process of validation to check whether the data are accurate. Once the scheme is up and running, there will also be a process of verification. There is a fundamental point about IT architecture. All three processes are distinct and disparate. The system has to be designed around them. That is where I am trying to get my finger on the pulse.