What I can say from some experience of businesses is that by the year you develop your ambitions according to the budget available. If you have a Chancellor, rather than a chief financial officer, he will soon put you in your place in saying what is affordable and what is not. You do not simply assume that everything desirable will have a ticket on it and that will be part of the ultimate cost. That is not the way in which the world works.
Identity Cards Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 19 December 2005.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Identity Cards Bill.
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