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Identity Cards Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 13 March 2006, in the House of Commons.
Identity Cards Bill. Lords reasons for insisting on certain of their amendments to which the Commons have disagreed, considered. Lords amendments disagreed to on division (310 to 277). Amendment in lieu agreed to.

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Reference

443 c1248-66 

Session

2005-06

Department

Home Office

Legislative stage

Lords amendments

Procedure

Lords reasons

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Identity Cards Bill. Lords reasons for insisting on certain Lords amendments.
Monday, 6 March 2006
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 443 c1266 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask hon. Members to leave quickly and quietly, so that business can proceed—[Interruption.]...
Lord Deben | 443 c1255-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not opposed to the concept of identity cards but I oppose the misuse of the English language. I...

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Lynne Jones | 443 c1256 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says that he is in favour of identity cards, but is he in favour of the peo...
Lord Deben | 443 c1256 (Link to this contribution) That question is so unimportant compared with the central philosophical issue with which we are deal...
Stewart Hosie | 443 c1256-7 (Link to this contribution) There are two constantly repeated assertions in regard to the compulsory ID card system. The first i...
Nick Clegg | 443 c1254-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a compelling point. The problem is compounded by the fact that the Home Secreta...
Richard Shepherd | 443 c1255 (Link to this contribution) : Both Opposition Front Benchers have made much of altering the relationship between the citizen and...
William Cash | 443 c1257-8 (Link to this contribution) : This is compulsion—there is no doubt about it. The hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie) ha...
John Greenway | 443 c1258 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary knows that I have the highest regard for him—[Interruption.] Come on, we have had...
Charles Clarke | 443 c1258 (Link to this contribution) The Lords amendment will increase the cost.
John Greenway | 443 c1258 (Link to this contribution) No, the Government’s proposal will increase the cost. This is disproportionate. Before we vote on th...
Lord Garnier | 443 c1261 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary give way?
Charles Clarke | 443 c1261 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not. After the election, the Bill was reintroduced and, yet again, we made it absolutel...
Speaker | 443 c1260 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman requires the leave of the House to respond.
Charles Clarke | 443 c1260-1 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I should like to respond to this debate. I had not ...
Mark Fisher | 443 c1260 (Link to this contribution) There is a perfectly logical case for compulsory identity cards. If one believes, as the Home Secret...
Charles Clarke | 443 c1260 (Link to this contribution) I was not going to respond to this debate, but—
Simon Hughes | 443 c1258-60 (Link to this contribution) I speak to support my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg) and the view that the...
Speaker | 443 c1262 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.
Lord Garnier | 443 c1261 (Link to this contribution) Even if one accepts the history of the Home Secretary’s argument, what does he mean by ““on a volunt...
Charles Clarke | 443 c1261 (Link to this contribution) I have set that out clearly in what I have said, but I shall say it again if the hon. and learned Ge...
Neil Gerrard | 443 c1249 (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful if my right hon. Friend clarified an issue relating to the renewal of passports....
Charles Clarke | 443 c1249 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving me the chance to clarify that point. My understanding is ...
Simon Hughes | 443 c1249 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary will know that many people have no objection to the idea of signing up to an inte...
Charles Clarke | 443 c1249 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the hon. Gentleman is correct. What we are saying is very clear and in accordanc...
David Leslie Taylor | 443 c1250 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary tell the House what proportion of the 60 million residents of the United Kin...
Charles Clarke | 443 c1250 (Link to this contribution) I am speaking off the cuff, but I think that the figure is about 20 per cent.
Charles Clarke | 443 c1250 (Link to this contribution) I will take the intervention from the right hon. Gentleman and say 15 per cent. The point is that a ...
Charles Clarke | 443 c1250 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. Later this year, we plan to start to interview all adult first-time passport applic...
Lord Garnier | 443 c1251-2 (Link to this contribution) On the face of it, this is just another Committee stage debate about the inclusion of the word ““may...
Simon Hughes | 443 c1252 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. and learned Gentleman been able to discover a single example of any occasion during or ...
Charles Clarke | 443 c1250 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. The structure that I have described indicates that there are four common sense reas...
Charles Clarke | 443 c1250-1 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. The amendments have been fully debated during the passage of two Bills in both...
Lord Garnier | 443 c1252-4 (Link to this contribution) It is but one example, and we have had several since 1997. On 13 February, the Government agreed th...
Nick Clegg | 443 c1254 (Link to this contribution) The ““Oxford English Dictionary”” gives the following definition of ““voluntary””:"““done, given, or...
Lord Garnier | 443 c1252 (Link to this contribution) Trying to extract from the Government’s words any coherent intellectual basis for the case that they...
William Cash | 443 c1252 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend agree that this is an extremely good example of what Lord Hailsham o...
Robert Smith | 443 c1254 (Link to this contribution) The Government pray in aid the fact that people are free not to travel, but I do not think that many...
Speaker | 443 c1248 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendment No. 22, the Government motion to insist o...
Charles Clarke | 443 c1248 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House insists on its disagreement with the Lords in the said amendment.
Charles Clarke | 443 c1248-9 (Link to this contribution) Amendment (a) is largely technical and clarifies clause 5 by adding the words ““or be accompanied by...

Subjects

Biometrics
Applications
Identity cards
Documents
National identity register
Passports
Registration

Legislation

Identity Cards Bill 2005-06

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