Identity Cards Bill

It is not my case—and I do not think that it is anybody’s—that this proposal is ““utterly unaffordable””. The question is what we are setting about affording The difference between the estimates from the Government, at roughly £6 billion, and the LSE group at £19 billion to £24 billion or £25 billion is the sort of difference that one must do better with, before one legislates, as I think the noble Lord would agree.