Identity Cards Bill

Perhaps we are struggling to get the point over. Perhaps the noble Lord has not heard or read all the previous debates and questions on this issue. His question is based on an assumption; that is, that banks up and down the country will have access to the ID cards database so that they will be in a position to read that card and then bring up that individual’s picture on their screens. That will not be the case. That is not how the system is intended to operate. It does not work in that way.