Identity Cards Bill

moved Amendment No. 178:"Page 12, line 36, after ““the”” insert ““express””" The noble Lord said: This is a group of two amendments in my name, Amendments Nos. 178 and 180. They relate to Clause 14, which allows the Secretary of State to provide information on the register to commercial sources with the consent of the individual concerned. It is an important provision, and we on these Benches have no problem with the notion of a certain income being generated if it is genuinely with the consent of the card-holder. Amendments Nos. 178 and 180 make it clear that that consent must be express. It may be said that that is how the person in charge of the register will work, but I should like it to be as plain as a pikestaff that the only consent that will enable the Secretary of State to provide information is express consent. That is what these amendments relate to. I beg to move.