Identity Cards Bill

I appreciate that in the noble Lord’s mind there may not be much difference between us. However, we need to have certainty—and my argument here rests on the point that we must legislate for certainty. That is part of the reason why the Bill is phrased as it is. With the flexibility that these amendments would provide, in the way that the noble Lord and others have described it, we would end up with something like a drop-in centre approach, which really would not work.