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Identity Cards Bill

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Tuesday, 15 November 2005, in the House of Lords.
Identity Cards Bill. Lords committee stage first day. Clause 1 under consideration. (Part 2 of 2)

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

675 c1042-62 

Session

2005-06

Department

Home Office

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Identity Cards Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory notes HL Bill 28-EN also published.
Wednesday, 19 October 2005
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Identity Cards Bill
Tuesday, 15 November 2005
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Proceeding contributions

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 675 c1055-7 (Link to this contribution) It has been a very interesting debate, the balance of which has indicated the utility of the word ““...
Earl of Onslow | 675 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I am, unsurprisingly, in a muddle here. I quite accept that electronically I have only just got up t...

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Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 675 c1057 (Link to this contribution) The figures given by the noble Earl, Lord Northesk, in relation to failure rates are not those that ...
Earl of Northesk | 675 c1057-8 (Link to this contribution) This is a fundamentally crucial problem. As the Minister appreciates, I have difficulties with data ...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 675 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to ask the Minister to give way at 9.35 pm, but she was just talking about something that...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 675 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I am just conscious of how much time we have already spent on this matter. I shall try to do as much...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 675 c1058-9 (Link to this contribution) Neither the noble Lord, Lord Phillips, nor the noble Earl, Lord Onslow, are being in the least bit s...
Earl of Onslow | 675 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Phillips. This is important. As I understand it, biometric capture...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 675 c1059 (Link to this contribution) It is also important to understand the way in which this whole thing has been looked at. Noble Lords...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 675 c1059 (Link to this contribution) The second part should be the existing evidence of the fallibility or otherwise of the different asp...
Earl of Northesk | 675 c1059-60 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to all Members of the Committee who have contributed to this—I was going to say ““shor...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 675 c1060 (Link to this contribution) I understand that concern. That is why we have made it clear, and tried to identify the fact, that p...
Earl of Northesk | 675 c1060-1 (Link to this contribution) In respect of equivalence with the poll tax, I would not have expected the Minister to say anything ...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 675 c1060 (Link to this contribution) I assure the Committee that this scheme has no similarity to the poll tax, inasmuch as we think that...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 675 c1060 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with the noble Baroness. There is one glaring similarity with the poll tax. As a result o...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 675 c1062 (Link to this contribution) In view of what has gone before, I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and...
Earl of Erroll | 675 c1043 (Link to this contribution) This amendment gives me at an opportunity to say what I should have said on the previous amendment i...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 675 c1043-4 (Link to this contribution) The amendment is short and pertinent, and I shall try to make a short and pertinent speech in suppor...
Baroness Seccombe | 675 c1047 (Link to this contribution) We hear what the Minister said about Clause 6, but he has not dealt with the totality of the report....
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 675 c1047 (Link to this contribution) There is parliamentary control in the sense that such matters can and will from time to time be brou...
Lord Crickhowell | 675 c1050 (Link to this contribution) In a sense, ““convenient”” is a marketing word by government, but we can take advantage of it. If th...
Earl of Northesk | 675 c1047-50 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 8:"Page 1, line 9, leave out ““convenient””" The noble Earl said: I certainly d...
Lord Crickhowell | 675 c1044-5 (Link to this contribution) The real point of the amendment is that it deals with function creep. In 1950, a parliamentary commi...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 675 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister does not reject the amendment out of hand. It is important that Parliament ...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 675 c1046-7 (Link to this contribution) The bodies that the Minister has just enumerated—advisory groups and so on, to which the noble Baron...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 675 c1045-6 (Link to this contribution) As ever, this short debate—relatively short in terms of the way in which we are progressing through ...
Lord Crickhowell | 675 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I still wonder whether the people who vote are entirely aware of the obligations that will be placed...
Lord Maxton | 675 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I remember making a very similar argument to that which the noble Lord is making today about changin...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 675 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I did not want to interrupt the noble Lord on that point, but we are not referring exclusively to th...
Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 675 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my noble friend for tabling the amendment, which I support. I feel that it would br...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 675 c1054 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend has done a service to the Committee in focusing our thoughts on ““convenient”” becau...
Baroness Carnegy of Lour | 675 c1053-4 (Link to this contribution) My noble kinsman—I do not often have the chance to say that—who has been a kinsman since the 17th ce...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 675 c1053 (Link to this contribution) I am going to shock the noble Baroness Lady Henig, by opposing the amendment. I do so with deference...
Earl of Onslow | 675 c1053 (Link to this contribution) The one thing that has made me really blanch with horror is what my noble friend said about the fail...
Earl of Erroll | 675 c1051-3 (Link to this contribution) I realise that certain points I wanted to make in relation to Amendment No. 7 can be made equally co...
Lord Crickhowell | 675 c1050-1 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware that the Government were advertising this legislation on the lines that it was their...
Baroness Seccombe | 675 c947 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 5:"Page 1, line 4, at end insert ““in a form approved by Parliament””" The nobl...
Baroness Seccombe | 675 c1042-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 5: Page 1, line 4, at end insert "in a form approved by Parliament" The nobl...

Subjects

Access
Data protection
Biometrics
Costs
Fingerprints
ICT
Immigration controls
Identity cards
Interviews
EU nationals
Privacy
National identity register
Proof of identity
Passports
Registration
Security

Legislation

Identity Cards Bill 2005-06

Link

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